If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
It's funny how we 'do' Christmas. Christmas is not something that we do, it is something that was done. It celebrates the long awaited arrival of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. We had nothing to do with it, but what we can do is praise God for the coming of the Lord, who washed away the sins of the world by dying on the cross.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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