"Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves."
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"People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life."
"We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best."
"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."
"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
"I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself."
"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical."
"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
"Be so good they can't ignore you."
"Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want."
"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."
"Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people."
"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"