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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.
Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!
The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of, So tell me now and I won't ask again, Will you still love me tomorrow?
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.