The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute. . . best at what you do.
The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding. . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
Germany are a very difficult team to play. . . they have eleven internationals out there today.
Do not doubt the holy love of Jesus to your soul when he is laying a heavy hand upon you.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.