"You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be."
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"Trees shaped like deer should not be ridden like benches if they get stuck up in other trees. No hunting farming allowed. Fishing only."
"A poem for Beth: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I didn’t know what love meant, until I looked it up in the dictionary."
"Why can you see the stars at night, but not the light..."
"You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try."
"Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be."
"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world."
"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
"The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. 'It's not what you think,' she said. 'It was just—oh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now, what?"
"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."
"Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing."
"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
"Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it."- Daemon"
"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
"The heart pumps blood, a fluid, but it also pulses love, which is as liquid as a wave, and everyone wants a refill. My goal is to be a server."
"The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success; success is deliberate!"
"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."
"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."
"But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?"
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