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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.
Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
You have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed
That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.
Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.
The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
The most wonderful taste of serenity is found by the love you create for yourself, and those around you.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.