If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.
Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.
Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.
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.
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.
My first six years in the business were hopeless._x000D_ _x000D_ There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?_x000D_ _x000D_ I'll never make it._x000D_ _x000D_ It's just not going to happen._x000D_ _x000D_ I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.
Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.
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