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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.