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Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.
Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.
The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.
Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.
I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.
A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.
The world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?
I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.