You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
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You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
Love is the absence of judgment.
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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