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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.
When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?
Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.