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Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.
We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.
An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.
When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.