Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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