Charles Sheldon (Charles Monroe Sheldon) Quotes
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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She was poison in a pretty bottle.
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Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
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Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.
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The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
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Science has proved that the more you smile, the more positive reactions others will give you.
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We cannot hope to build the Church and to bring hearts and souls to Christ without using every resource the Lord has given to help us take advantage of our opportunities and address the obstacles standing in our way.
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I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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It was the sinner that Christ came to help.
