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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Nature hates calculators.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Thought, like all potent weapons, is exceedingly dangerous if mishandled. Clear thinking is therefore desirable not only in order to develop the full potentialities of the mind, but also to avoid disaster.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.
Every evening I died, and every evening I was born again, resurrected.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Life is not about how many breathes we take, but the moments that take our breathes away.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Let yourself Go.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
Believe in dreams.
Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Trust one who has gone through it.
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
True friends stab you in the front.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Courage isn't the absence of fear, its the resistance of fear, the mastery of fear.
Mistakes can either be stepping stones or stumbling blocks.
Kiss and Make Up.
Love makes all burdens light.
A nickname lasts forever.
Hunches are usually based on facts filed just below the conscious level.
Love makes everybody vulnerable.
Let go of anger; it hurts you more than the person you are angry at.
When you really think about it, truly think hard about it-Life Is Strange.
It is better to love someone you cannot have than to be with someone you cannot love.
The more you love somone, the easier it is to forgive him.
Love accepted is twice as strong as love given.
A person can never have enough hope.
Learn to cope with rejection.
It is easier to give advice about something once you have been through it.
Punk's not just a look, it's a state of mind.
Enjoy what you have instead of feeling sorry for what you don't have.
'Tis better to have loved & lost than to have never loved at all.
In the end, things will mend.
People who are bored have no inner resources.
It takes a thousand compliments to forget an insult.
Allow life's flow to take you.
Let your dreams become a reality.
Every life has a story.
Write your diary in secret code.
Mistakes turn into experience.
Do not delay what your heart says.
Never doubt an opinion made from the heart.
The smartest people may ask a foolish question now & then.
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