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The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.
Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
If you can imagine it, you can create it. That beautiful world you dream about, needs positive action to come true.
It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.
You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything.
Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.
Voila, pleasurable indeed. Oh yeah, satisfy my need. Alright, how I long to be. My soul on fire and my spirit free.