To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 04:49 sati.