I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
The readiness is all.
but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
What we play is life.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.
And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. " There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
Don't get it right, just get it written.
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
