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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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 believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.