"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."

Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist

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"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

Henry James, American Writer

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying."

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."

"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."