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<|endoftext|>humor: Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: I tried to convince myself once, when I was a teenager, that I felt God. Alone in the sanctuary, accompanying my mom on an evening errand to the church. I stared at the ceiling and drew deep breath as quickly as I could. I told our youth minister in his ball cap that I had felt Him. That I was blessed. But in the end, it was only the wind and the rain, making noise in the darkness.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Did He Do the Right Thing? I walked out of the room. I did not stay to watch my beloved draw her last breath because I didn't want all my magical memories of her tainted by the profanity of death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: "The persistent drip wears through stone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Something ought to be said for those who see beyond what most cannot, and this most precious opportunity happens the moment when ones personal value begins blossoming its perfect absolute."-Steven Cuoco<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: You are the creator of your world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: True friends stab you in the front.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: Create your inner peace to enjoy the endless beauties of life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us,"said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.Sold my soul and yeah, the truth hurts.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: A day without laughter is a day wasted.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I was seen spotted with an older woman and a girl half my height in age. A leopard was also spotted.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Bombs have kill-radiuses; churches should have love-radiuses--anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: Why be alone when we can be together babyYou can make my life worthwhileAnd I can make you start to smile<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: It is culture that is the bully."Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: Doldrums People who live in the doldrumscan't throw caution to the wind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You can use your mouth to speak the words I love you, or you can use your mouth to kiss me and transport love from your mind to my heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heartAnd your plans are upset and your world falls apart,Remember God's ready and waiting to shareThe burden you find much to heavy to bear--So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD"lead your wayInto a brighter and less troubled day<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Nebraska State Motto Equality before the law.Where Monsanto/GMO corn is above the law.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed--<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: ...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Credo of a Substitute Teacher I'm a 'sugar free' substitute teacher.I speak frankly and never gave any of my studentsa single word of encouragement.Why should I? Even after 10 years the school hasn't given me a pension, health insurance or paid sick leave.So fuck 'em.Fuck 'em all.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: No one escapes from life alive.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.<|endoftext|>