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- Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable…
- All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
- Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe…
- The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
- If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of…
- We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is…
- Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
- My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and…
- The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor.…
- We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of…
- Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we…
- From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels…
- Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but…
- A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
- The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
- Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
- I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the…
- The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into…
- A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book…
- There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman