Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
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