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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for ...
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with ...
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, ...
I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly ...
After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these ...
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
But the goal of Zen Housekeeping is not to have a home that is perfect. It is to embrace the process of keeping the house ...
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up ...
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy ...
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. ...
What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life's emptiness wind than the knowledge?
The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, ...
Beauty brings warmth, elegance and grandeur. Something in our souls longs deeply for that graciousness and delight. When we advert to the presence of beauty, ...
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort ...
Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove ...
Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone.
There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, ...
And what this ECW is doing is educating you people once again that there IS wrestling, spelt W-R-E-S-T-L-I-N-G, out there.
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the ...
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ...
The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise ...
At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot ...
The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase ...
If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when ...
Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only ...
Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is ...
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't ...
Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements,And should give certain judgement what they see;But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wondersOf common things, which ...
Good well-being leads to good working performance.
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other ...
Not everyone understand everything.
In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. ...
To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.
Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the ...
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam ...
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few ...
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles ...
When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe ...
My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once ...
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie ...
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because ...
Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.
You possess a divine strength to fulfill your dream.
I guess at the end of the day it's better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, ...
Issa knelt down in front of her, taking her hands in his. Until the end of time, I will love you. You are the moon ...
At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back ...
The beacon is empty. There is no light. -Eleazar Wentzel (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)
The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.
Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can ...
Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't ...
It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, ...
I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.
I want your world to begin and end with me.
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
I live in the realm of love and light.
To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred ...
Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is ...
What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to ...
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to ...
The person who experiences most wins.
Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he ...
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's ...
For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow ...
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.
There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's ...
What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.
New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...
The Ego, The Thief that Steals Happiness from Our Hearts
The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become ...
Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no ...
I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I ...
If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a ...
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same ...
I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it ...
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's ...
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. ...
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud ...
In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, ...
You live only once, so enjoy the life at its best and live it to the fullest.
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and ...
No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both ...
When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.
I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it ...
I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.