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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Love is the absence of judgment.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Try a little harder to be a little better.
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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