The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are...
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C.g. Jung
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

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Unknown
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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Jane Austen
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
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Sara Gruen
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in...
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Paulo Coelho
More Quotes By James Lee Burke
.. . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the...
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.
But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation...
