And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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