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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. J.F.K.--The Man and the AirportUnknown, Suggested book title. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. We are what we repeatedly do. We go where our vision is. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Desire creates the power. Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Men are born to succeed, not fail. I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. A motion to adjourn is always in order. Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. He not busy being born is busy dying. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. The ancestor of every action is a thought. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. Take what you can use and let the rest go by. You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. |
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