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When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.
You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.
When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.
Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.
Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.