I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
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I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.
Each time of life has its own kind of love.
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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