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Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.