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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

The ability to start out upon your own impulse is_x000D__x000D_fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own_x000D__x000D_terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started _x000D__x000D_again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

So little time we live in Time,_x000D__x000D_And we learn all so painfully,_x000D__x000D_That we may spare this hour's term_x000D__x000D_To practice for Eternity.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.