And Quotes
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.
This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both
Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.
The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.
Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.
God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.
Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.
As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.
My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.
As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.