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<|endoftext|>hope: You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: 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|>knowledge: Say No to Drugs Commercials The image of an egg sizzling in a frying pan is not your brain on drugs.It's just a fucking omelet.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: Who is the third who walks always beside you?When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside youGliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hoodedI do not know whether a man or a woman-But who is that on the other side of you?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: There is hope in forgiveness<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Frank Lloyd Wright {Couplet} Frank Lloyd Wright eliminated the confining wall,so now when your wife screams at youit sounds like you're in Tammany Hall.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Two Dust Storms or A Nice Pair of Haboobs A palm tree passes through a sandstorm, shakingoff the dusty rain like a wet dogon the less fortunate wayfarersburied in the sand.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition"right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: ...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe)I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I'd throw it off a cliff.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Love yourself deeply and be satisfied with the amazing life you create.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: breathtaking, adj.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I never loved another person the way I loved myself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: What a comfort to know that God is a poet.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: FBI vs. CIA When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,he gets a watch.When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,he gets watched.I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~I know this because I have HBO.<|endoftext|>