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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.
this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"