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Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.
If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many there are, so let's start making the most of our Todays!
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.
I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.