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I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.
Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!
Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.
Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.
There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.