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"The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him."
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"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
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Personal Development
"God is the guarantee of our security."
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Personal Development
"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."
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"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."
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Personal Development
"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."
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Personal Development
"But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."
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Personal Development
"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
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"I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good."
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"Trust. And be trusted."
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"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Life
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
Dream
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education
"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
Trust
"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit."
Being
"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."
Thought
"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."
Poetry
"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
Writing
"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."
Writing
"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."
Being
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