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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.
When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
If I go a little over the top sometimes, don't worry; That's where all the sunshine is.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.
We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.
God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.
For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
Don't take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at it
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.
When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.