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<|endoftext|>life: Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: It's the mind that sees, not eyes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Mild Suffering vs. Great Suffering Mild suffering serves the purpose of inner-change.Great suffering serves the purpose of evil,or just being at the wrong place at the wrong time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Me vs. Me Only the practice of empathy and gratitudecan make the opaque ego transparent to receivethe loving light emanating from your soul.Hate and selfishness will always leave you'in the shadow.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Be bold! Be a success and change the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: To pursue peace, be patient and peaceful.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: She plants love, and she grows roses. The fragrance of romance comes from the blossom that blooms in the heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: Kind words change the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I love you and it's getting worse.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: ...you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: Any friendship or relationship is about a language.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Tennessee State Motto Agriculture and Commerce.Where the KKK was bornand the most popular pick up line is, 'Nice tooth!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things"-he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore."Avada Kedavra!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Q & A The illness of our time is not that we lack for answers;man's tragedy is that we've forgotten the important questions.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walked,A song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I know a thing or two about love. Well, maybe just a thing. A big, blurry thing, like Bigfoot.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: I want to write a poem about "Truth,""Honor,""Dignity,"and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Free Lunch There's no such thing as a free lunch ~for people who haven't yet learned to beat the system ;)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Flood of Feeling {Couplet} A flood of feeling is a poem,created from daydreaming in the zone.The levees break, emotions snake,from imagination's ocean who sets the stakes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: I honestly have no idea how to live without you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here,"he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: ESL New immigrantswho've taken ESL (English as a Second Language),will always misunderstand sarcasm ~but those fuckers sure as shit enjoy the prices at Walmart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: In love, one and one are one.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.<|endoftext|>