So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain

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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.