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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
You'll be surprised how much better you feel about the world when you feel better about your self.
It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.