While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.
. . . but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).
You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself. ” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.
One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.