In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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