"The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?"
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"Staring GirlI once knew a girlwho would just stand there and stare.At anyone or anything,she seemed not to careShe'd stare at the ground,She'd stare at the sky.She'd stare at you for hours,and you'd never know why.But after winning the local staring contest,she finally gave her eyesa well-deserved rest."
"Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose"."
"A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do."
"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
"To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)"
"And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!"
"But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt."
"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back."
"Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure."
"In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy."
"Choice or no, my heart is his."
"Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?"
"Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too."
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."
"You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me."
"Love vs. the Three Headed Dragon In relationships, the corrosive venom of the three-headed dragon areindifference, fault-finding and 'take-each-other-for-grantedness'.Only these cantarnish the shining armor of amour."
"Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.And it always feels good."
"And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor."
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