I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
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I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.
I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Courage is found in unlikely places.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
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