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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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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what…
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart.…
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To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment…
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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to…
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If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
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In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,…
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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
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In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive.…
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