"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."
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"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
"With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."
"To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone."
"Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."Proverbs 1:7 NLT"
"There is only one attraction, one law, one power and that is the power of love."
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
"I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs."
"Body is a home, a prison and a grave."
"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."
"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
"It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters."
"Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
"Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them."
"Ars Poetica: Dovetailing Collage [10w] Poems should be a dovetailing collage not a linear cohesion."
"The Flood that Did Not Subside [10w] What would today's world be,If Noah's dove flew into obscurity?"
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."
"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..."
"You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried."
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