All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDASeveral thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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