Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
DAVE CHAPPELLESentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
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You’re always looking to make it a bit fresh.
ADRIAN HODGES -
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
NICHOLAS SPARKS -
But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
RENE DESCARTES -
My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They’re people who are actually interesting and they’re doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
Don’t never drop your head. Don’t never feel like you counted out.
GUCCI MANE -
You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.
ABBI GLINES -
Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
CARSON MCCULLERS -
About pain; maybe it will hit you when you think about what will happen if you just stay a little longer.
A. DIMITRI -
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEAD -
They never said winning was easy.
DJ KHALED -
You have something special. You have greatness within you. You have something no one else has.
LES BROWN -
Donald Trump says five things: everyone’s dumb, he’s going to make America great again, we’re going to win, win, win. He’s winning in the polls.
MARCO RUBIO -
I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
AGNES VARDA -
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE -
My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
BEATRICE SPARKS -
Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.
XUNZI -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
MAIMONIDES -
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
RAM DASS -
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
BOB MARLEY -
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON -
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SENECA -
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
BLACK FRANCIS -
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROT -
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDER