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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”
“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”
“When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.”
“To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.”
“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insig...”
“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbre...”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“We spent our lives making livings.”
“This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more...”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.”
“Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.”
“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
“Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.”
“- Is it their fault if they think that its good to work?- No, said Colin, its not their fault. Its because theyve been told : work is sacred, its good, its nice, its what counts before anything, an...”
