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If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

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

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

I used everything you gave me.

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.

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.

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

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

I want to live my life, not record it.

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

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

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

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

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

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

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.

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.

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

More depends on my walk than talk.

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.

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

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.

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

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.