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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.
Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.
What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.