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We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.
If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.
You take everything onto your shoulders like that guy who holds up the world, and you shouldn’t. You’re not nearly as muscular.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.
For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.
What I have done is packaged the time-honored information into a process that is doable and has inspired millions to act on it.
As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.
Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.
For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.
I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.
There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.
Sometimes when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you.
The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.
Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.
No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.
I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.
Once you get in shape, you'll be amazed at how many other goals you'll want to achieve in your life. Fitness breeds enthusiasm.
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.
All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.
We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.