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"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world." - Emmet Fox
"And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. [On the volcano]" - Empedocles NULL
"For they prevail in turn as the circle comes round, and pass into one another, and grow great in their appointed turn." - Empedocles NULL
"Many a good cow has a bad calf." - English Proverbs
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." - English Proverbs
"There is reason in the roasting of eggs." - English Proverbs
"Wednesday's child is full of woe." - English Proverbs
"I cannot believe that God would make to a sinner in his wants and his woes the tender of a relief which did not exist, or which he did not wish him to embrace; I cannot believe that God would command his creatures to embrace a provision which had never been made for them, or sanction by the peril of one’s everlasting interests a commandment which he never meant should be obeyed, and which itself precluded the possibility of obedience." - Erskine Mason
"When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction. " - Ester and Jerry Hicks
"Everything I do is a creation of my hands whether it is made in wood, plaster, or clay." - Eva Zeisel
"If you put too many people around a flickering idea,you risk blowing it out. A wiser strategy is to let that thrive, and if that starts burning brighter, send more people over to pay attention." - Evan Williams
"We do not know the purpose of one moment of life." - Ezriel Tauber
"I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"When God was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. An angel nearby said, What kind of father is that? If you" - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt." - Ernest Becker
"The individual has to protect himself against the world, and he can do this only as any other animal would: by narrowing down the world, shutting off experience, developing an obliviousness both to the terrors of the world and to his own anxieties. Otherwise he would be crippled for action. We cannot repeat too often the great lesson of Freudian psychology: that repression is normal self-protection and creative self-restriction—in a real sense, man's natural substitute for instinct. Rank has a perfect, key term for this natural human talent: he calls it "partialization" and very rightly sees that life is impossible without it. What we call the well-adjusted man has just this capacity to partialize the world for comfortable action. I have used the term "fetishization," which is exactly the same idea: the "normal" man bites off what he can chew and digest of life, and no more. In other words, men aren't built to be gods, to take in the whole world; they are built like other creatures, to take in the piece of ground in front of their noses. Gods can take in the whole of creation because they alone can make sense of it, know what it is all about and for. But as soon as a man lifts his nose from the ground and starts sniffing at eternal problems like life and death, the meaning of a rose or a star cluster—then he is in trouble. Most men spare themselves this trouble by keeping their minds on the small problems of their lives just as their society maps these problems out for them. These are what Kierkegaard called the "immediate" men and the "Philistines." They "tranquilize themselves with the trivial"—and so they can lead normal lives." - Ernest Becker
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers." - Ernest Dimnet
"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Blood is thicker than water, the young man said as he knifed his friend for a drooling old bitch and a house full of lies." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except that it was an even better time. If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Good writing is good conversation, only more so." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Half fish, he said. Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. You kept from thinking and it was all marvelous. You were equipped with good insides so that you did not go to pieces that way, the way most of them had, and you made an attitude that you cared nothing for the work you used to do, now that you could no longer do it." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"How much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be" - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"In life, one must (first) last. (In life, we must [first] last.)" - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"It was strange how easy being tired enough made it." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Listen, I told him. Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway