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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the…
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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look…
— Maya Angelou
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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
— John Milton
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To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.
— Leon Uris
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Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.
— Keith B. McMullin
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary…
— Thomas Gray
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O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy…
— William Allingham
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Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
— Hermann Hesse
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Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.
— Max Lucado
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I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind,…
— Nancy E. Turner
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California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the…
— Christopher Isherwood
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I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of…
— Edmund Vance Cooke
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