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<|endoftext|>writing: You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: True life is lived when tiny changes occur.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Without music, life would be a mistake.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Romantic Ring Ceremony Define this wedding ring,with which I betroth thee unto me forever,not by the confining boundaries of it's goldbut by the empty circle within -that perfect portal to your loving heartyou have opened for me, and me alone -as I have opened mine for you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or on the horizon?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: To err is human, to purr is feline.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: don't be afraid of being different, be afraid of being the same as everyone else<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always said so."(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Revel in the Unraveling Being authentic is lifting the maskon who you think you should be seen as,and becoming at ease with your bare ass vulnerability.Revel in the unraveling,take courage in sharing your imperfections,and you'llincrease your loveexponentially.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.''Why are you saying that?''She might need permission to die, Cal.''I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: A blooming flower pleads, oh thee! Look at me, to see the beauty, Kiss me like a bee, To feel the bliss, To taste the nectar of life And just to feel and be. Kiss me like a wave kisses the shore In an endless dancing sea, again and again, just to be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>funny: There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I go to seek a Great Perhaps.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: A minute's success pays the failure of years.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: Every angel is terrifying.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>friendship: Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art is the objectification of feeling.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: You become what you focus on and dream about.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: The most attractive force is a smile.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Dream, Dream DreamDreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Figure, Woman, Wife I study the sleeping figure,Stare at her sated curl of lip;Her lids sealed in dreams so pureMy love's secured from tip to tip.I study the sleeping womanHer forehead faint with sweatHer eyes wildly remmingOf adulterous sex, I bet.I study the sleeping wife,Her mouth faintly drawing breath;Her throat pouring pools of blood ~How I loved this woman to death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I will love you even when I am dust on the wind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Giving is the only way of taking part<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Sweets to the sweet.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.Why try to make me like you?Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?Why do you scream when I do what I did?Im a kid.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is a zoo in a jungle.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you.<|endoftext|>