The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.
For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.
This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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