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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
I'm blessed with good genes, but I also love to look my best self.
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.
We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.
It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.
It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.
The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.
Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.
Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.
To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.
The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.
Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.