If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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