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<|endoftext|>life: That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: The wealthier I get, the more money I will have to not have, because my goal in getting is giving, and nothing is better than charity.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Anything is Possible!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire,He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her.Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door,To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: My ego is the wall between you and me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I've never minded it,"he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: My love is like the shape your mouth makes while you whistle. Would you mind if I accompanied you on my harmonica?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You kick ass Sam. And don't forget it<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune,"but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Do one thing every day that scares you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: I don't deserve you. I'm not made for relationships. I know I'm going to fuck this up. I'm going to drive you away or do something to hurt you, and you'll be added to my list of people I screwed over. You should walk away now.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!""And what if you do get a second chance?""You take it!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Coffee Wisdom New Yawk [6] You either pay me the five large nowor yoos can choosebetween the toilet plungeror the hot coffee enemaya fuckin jamook.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid; or the bent and broken feet of a dancing ballerina. It is in every considered step I am taking in the opposite direction of you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: You're My Favorite' If you want all your children to know they're your favorite,give them all the same nameand whisper this confession in all their earswith the promise not to telltheir brothers and sisters.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: We feel most alive when we are closest to death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: I only understand friendship or scorched earth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>motivation: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is a hole in the heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: It takes a very long time to become young.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Purity of heart is what enables us to see.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then."She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.<|endoftext|>