"If I found 20 dollars on the ground, I’d be willing to bet I’d find someone in desperate need of money that I could give it to. And I’d bet 20 dollars, so even after finding and giving away 20 dollars, I’d have made 20 dollars."
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"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
"There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]"
"But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done."
"God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live."
"Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith."
"Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation."
"To become one who believes two become one, you need love in your life."
"Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves."
"Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn."
"When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit"
"Wheaties: Breakfast of Champions... who'll endorse any product for a price."
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"77 degrees in the fall feels cold, and 77 degrees in the spring feels hot. That’s why I’m selling year-round-nudity for half-price."
"I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'"
"The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands."
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good."
"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."
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