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- Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law…
- We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
- Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with…
- I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
- What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
- Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
- There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and…
- I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.
- Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the…
- Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you…
- Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
- The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
- In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.
- How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.
- After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
- People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
- There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
- The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.
- It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
- Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens,…
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