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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.
Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.
It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.
Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say ‘Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.
Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.
Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.
God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.
God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans.
Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that He is mighty enough to light your path?
In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.
Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy
Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.