S.L. Wallace Quotes
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.
I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.
Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism
K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
