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"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."
"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."
"I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do."
"Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination."
"Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself."
"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."
"But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword."
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
"All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did."
"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?", Oct. 4, 1930)]"
"The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them."
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."