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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course
Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.
There is someone special in my life right now, and I'm really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.