Famous Quotes
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"Inspiration comes of working every day."
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
"Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?"
"Don't count your owls before they are delivered."
"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
"Only one life, ’twill soon be past,Only what’s done for Christ will last."
"The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
"You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
"If you feel far from God, guess who moved?"
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."
"Pressure makes diamonds"
"My sun sets to rise again."
"There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."