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... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.
Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.
The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.
Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'
I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.
Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.
But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.
Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.
If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight
It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.
But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.