The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
I loved campaigning for Obama.
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. . . . It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.
Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.