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<|endoftext|>philosophy: This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: We have art in order not to die of the truth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand."He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Be memorable. Say something unforgettable. Be silent.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Love gives you eyes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: The possibility of the dream gives strength.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them". HS/el<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Enemies {couplet} Ne'er shall man's enemies been drawn so near,then when he seeketh to compare.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: I love Huey Lewis, but not the News, because the News is too depressing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: A picture is a poem without words.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Mithorden said it well,"she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared."She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: God dances with the outcast.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: You create your own masterpiece as your actions draw pictures of your life canvas.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: We write by the light of every story we have ever read.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Using the Backdoor If we compare writing computer code to sex,then hacking would be anal sex.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Was it hard?"I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Someday is not a day of the week.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Do you find this...distracting?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Optimistic people bring a sense of hope into world. Encouraging people bring a new meaning to life. They help you see past the clouds on a glooming day. They bring sunlight everyday<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life stand still here.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: What would you consider a good job?"Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money."When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.<|endoftext|>