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You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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