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We should never judge a day by its weather.

We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

We still and always want waking.

We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

We teach what we need to learn.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.