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Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.
— John Cowper Powys
If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
— Roma Downey
Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
— John Cowper Powys
Awareness of your weakness is the first step for correction
— Nasser Musliyar
But when he's cut, I bleed.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.
— John Cowper Powys
We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!
— John Cowper Powys
To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
— John Cowper Powys
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
— John Cowper Powys
He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle.
— David Foster Wallace
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
— John Cowper Powys
It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.
— John Cowper Powys
Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.
— John Cowper Powys
The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.
— John Cowper Powys
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
— John Cowper Powys
Life is short and the number of books is appalling.
— John Cowper Powys
One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
— John Cowper Powys