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"To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important."

"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."

". . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments."

"Scientific Discovery [10w] The greatest scientific discoveries were madelooking at the overlooked."

"Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so."

"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?"

"Pain vs. Pleasure {Couplet} Pain and pleasure are nearly identical,the difference lies in their temporal perception.Pleasure feels fleeting, pain feels unending;both jolt us at the nerve's first inception."

"The Human Race Pleasure is the sprint.Contentment is the 5 mile.Happiness is the marathon."

"The Freedom Paradox [10w] The act of protecting freedom is a violation of freedom."

"Adult Pretend [10w] "I'm tired of playing 'pretend';let's play 'get-real, bitch."

"I live my life in widening circleThat reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one,But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower.I have been circling for thousands of years,And I still don't know: am I a falcon,A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]"

"Kill Buddha's Hairdresser [10w] I'd like to meet Buddha's hairdresser and shoot the prick."

"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection ...***...is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star."

"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

"One Philosophical Question, Two Faces [10w] 'Is life wort living?' is tantamount to'Does God exist?"

"It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title."

"Memory Foam [10w] She had an ass like an elephants memoryfoam pillow."

"And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can’t plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don’t happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"How Much Space? {Couplet} Give a lover space enough to rejoice in their choice,but not enough room for their doubts to give voice."