Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
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Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.
MICHAEL JORDAN -
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDE -
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
O. HENRY -
In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don’t even belong to your parents. It’s an old Spanish law. It doesn’t require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.
BO DEREK -
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLIS -
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUST -
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSON -
The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSEN -
Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRAN -
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
FRANCIS CHAN -
The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.
DAVID DEIDA -
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS -
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN -
The more you know the less the better.
BILLY CONNOLLY -
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.
BARBARA PYM