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Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!
Unless you are in the middle of a storm, there is no validity in saying that you are not afraid of the storms.
When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!
You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe!
Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!
Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.
The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.