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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it with you.
Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.
If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.
If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.