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Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.
God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.
I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.
He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.
John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look like?
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons have gotten out of the box.
You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.
Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.
The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.