it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall. '
An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.