"I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son."
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"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
"If my legs get blown off in war, I’d like to have them replaced with a coffee table. Half man/half furniture, I’ll be in the living room if you need me."
"I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition."I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful."Yes?""You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me."I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor.I smiled and gave her my word."
"Evolution of Love [10w] Love evolved from when one monkey handed another a blossom."
"Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man."
"Break All the Rules of Poetry Place no limits on your poetry.Live a little.Break all the fucking rules!If it comes deep from the wellsprings of your imagination,the woolgathering of dreamers ~it is poetry ~no matter what anyone says."
"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not."
"Leaders live by choice, not by accident."
"I drink like a fish, and I swim in my thirst. I’m so parched for her love that I think I may drown in my desire."
"I wouldn’t even be the “world’s sexiest man” if the planet were populated entirely by my clones."
"Murder [10w] Two coats of paint doen't get rid of a ghost."
"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."
"God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color."
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
"George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words."
"The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids."
"What is the shape of love? Is it shaped like you? For me it is, but for you maybe it is shaped like me."
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