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I want his eyes to stop looking at me like that, and at the same time, I have always wanted to be looked at just like that. Now, when I look into the brown depths of his eyes… I feel desired. I feel confident.I feel free.I feel like a woman.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

The desire to touch her, to kiss her would end up with her walking away and him hurting again. So why the hell did he reach up and stroke her cheek with the back of his knuckle?

when a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

His tone dripping condescension, Lothaire crooned, “Ah children, it’s not yet story time.” He closed his eyes and turned away, saying over his shoulder, “To anyone who contemplates even nearing me while I sleep: I will garrote you with your own viscera.

Don't worry about how something is going to happen, just know that it is all unfolding perfectly, whether you can see it or not.

Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and our actions, if we don’t want our conscience to be backfired on. (“Twilight of desire”)

Do not allow anyone to dim your light.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Do not be anxious and begin to pray.

It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.

In 2013, 1 percent of poor renters lived in rent-controlled units; 15 percent lived in public housing; and 17 percent received a government subsidy, mainly in the form of a rent-reducing voucher. The remaining 67 percent—2 of every 3 poor renting families—received no federal assistance. 32 This drastic shortfall in government support, coupled with rising rent and utility costs alongside stagnant incomes, is the reason why most poor renting families today spend most of their income on housing.

I think Ken should grow some balls and tell Barbie to piss off," Matt said after Ashley waved an accusing finger in Darren's (leg-puppy) face, then stomped off to a table beside a window.

I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learnt this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little. I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

You have to choose your own destiny.You have to choose your own path in life.

Authors are sick people.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.

One kind of loneliness is the loneliness of solitude. If you have repented, surrendered, and committed your heart and life to Him, Christ forgives . . . and takes you into His family; He brings you to the hearth, and you feel the warmth of the fire. If you are lonely today, seek Christ and know the fellowship that He brings.

May the Lord grant you a tender kind heart.

We each act as the creator of the self, and therefore, we strive to attain self-realization by understanding what we were in various stages of life including what we began as and what we transmuted into becoming.

9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

Why do I always have so many fucking questions in my head?

Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE.

I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.Deep inside Where nothing’s fine I’ve lost my mind

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

The best remedy in situation is calmness.

It was frightening, this new clarity of vision: but I felt free at last to know darkness as the other side of light, and that both were needed for sight.And with that thought—it was almost as though I felt it in truth—the shackles of my old imprisoned self fell away at last. No more did I long for a warm bed behind safe walls. My heart drank in the beauty and wonder and danger of the world, and I saw for the first time that life was not something to survive, but something—the only thing—to be savoured in all its diversity. Light and dark together, mingled in all things, giving depth and substance where either alone was a pale shadow. I felt from that moment I might begin to find all things new.

To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.

There isn’t any doubt I’m stuck in stress and depression.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Mrs. Potts beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a Mad Hatter serenading a toaster as we speak. There could be mayhem wreaking havoc all over the love in New Gotham, granted what thankless ingrates you are. But here I am!

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up.

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of what we think we are, but in fact are not, puts a stop, for a moment, to the Manichean charade. If we renew, until they become a continuity, these moments of the knowledge of what we are not, we may find ourselves, all of a sudden, knowing who in fact we are.

Personal development is an ever-evolving process of making more and better distinctions about who you are and what you want.

Never doubt in the DARK what God told you in the LIGHT.

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

Agony's PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been....

Never leave your life plan to be determined by people who are not going where you are going. For the sake of your dreams and also for the sake of the people God created to benefit from your God-give talents, stay away from toxic people. Mount the shoulder giants and see farther ahead!

Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.