"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."
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"My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
"Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above."
"It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position."
"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."
"Enjoy your youth.You'll never be younger thanyou are at this very moment."
"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."
"Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken."
"Ineffable Poetry A good poem goes beyond the physics of our world;it can't be quantified; it's an ineffable voice that speak directly to our soul,bypassing the laws of this world."
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
"A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick."
"Mint Julep {Couplet} I've had more than a hint of a tulip or two,after treating them to a mint julep, or two."
"I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same."
"God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease."
"Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it."
"The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit."
"Enough [10w] Enough's the only thing most people can't get enough of."
"I arose like a rose, and this is how I knew I was in love. In the garden of life, I’m better off in your neighbor’s yard."