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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.
the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.
Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.
When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
Everyone knows that if you buy chocolate with spare change, then the calories don't count.
I don't need shoes. I need a night scope. You think they sell night scopes someplace here?
I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.
I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.
If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.
Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.
I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.
Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know
How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.
There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.
Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.
Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.
I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.
I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.
Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.