For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.


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In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflo...
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If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you'...
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Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever reali...
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The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in grea...
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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
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It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.
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There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter ...
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Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least...
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I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want ...
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We are not as some people like to assume nowadays 'just being real' by embracing passively the sinfu...
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When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity becau...
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I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
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I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
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Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
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It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotr...
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The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite of...
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The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
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It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does ...
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Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christiani...
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The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
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When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, se...
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Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without bei...
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How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of a...
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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual,...
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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already c...
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The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic li...
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Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territori...
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At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'l...
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There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough ...
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The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the car...
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love ...
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It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salari...
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman ...
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Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceiv...
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It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside ar...
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Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve...
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