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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
So the Warrior fights the Good Fight and he helps others, even though he does not quite understand why.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.
Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.
All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.
You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.