Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.
Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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