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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

I used everything you gave me.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Just when I thought life was over you came into my life.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life is like an EKG. Without the ups and downs, you're not living.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life was meant to be lived.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

More depends on my walk than talk.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone." "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it." "Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God...you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

One returns to the place one came from.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.