Teach like your hair's on fire!
. . . and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.
The world needs more love at first sight.
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control. ” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.
Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.
As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
Are you high? Why are you never wearing a shirt?" "I sleep naked," Cole said. He put both milk and sugar in my coffee. "As the day goes on, I put on more and more clothing. You should've come over an hour ago.
Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools.
Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening - no signs from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn't the point, the Shaykh explained. What mattered was the inner connection with God, which builds slowly and only transforms us gradually. Another obstacle, however, was that I often found it hard to concentrate during the dhikr.
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely. . . on the strength of their own thought.