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<|endoftext|>humor: As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Chase vs. Choose Happiness If you chase after happiness, it may escape you.If you choose happiness, it may take your house away.Both chasing and choosing have their hazards ~but they're less risky than waiting for happiness to find you.Remember, happiness is a lazy ass motherfuckerthat doesn't go on search and rescue missions.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art is for everybody.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: I have liquid lips, and my kisses are smooth as wine. Why pour you a glass when you can drink from the bottle?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: When I am searching for something, it is always waiting for me with open arms.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: belief is the death of intelligence.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I am not a teacher, but an awakener.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: One today is worth two tomorrows.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Books are for nothing but to inspire<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Faith, Princess,"the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: I never lie,"I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: Love knows no boundaries. I wish I would have known that before I hired a cartographer to map out my romantic territory.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.This is what it means to be alive.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Our knowledge of life is limited to death<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Why write stories? To join the conversation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: May your soul be rooted in love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: My main hope for myself is to be where I am.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: Without honesty and integrity, success is nothing but a terrible failure.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is beautiful but people are crazy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Dialogue Knowledge compromises its truthonce it ceases to be a dialogue.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: I had a dream about you last night.. You were playing with chicken livers and told me everyone was in quarantine.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Step follows step,Hope follows Courage,Set your face towards danger,Set your heart on victory.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Spreading Yourself Too Thin We tend to bite off more than we can chewbecause we've got big mouths.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Stop thinking about life and choose to live it<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Hope does not leave without being given permission.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: Its been six weeks,"he murmured. "Six weeks I've wanted you. I know how you move, and how the sunlight makes a shadow on the curve of your cheek, and the shape of your ear."He chucked harshly then turned his head on the pillow to look at her. "I'm dying,"he said. He dropped his fist against his chest. "Right here, you're killing me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: I love deeply. I love long. I love wide and high. That's right, my love is interdimensional, and my vortex will heal your body and soul.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is too precious to be ashamed of.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Office Depot: Taking Care of Business... ...with short breaks, bad management and no job advancement opportunities.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.<|endoftext|>