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You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?
This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.
As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?
I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.
This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.
The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.
I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!
Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!
Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!
If you find a fork on your way when you are in need of a spoon, take it to give someone who is in need of a fork!
If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!
Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!
To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!
Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!