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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.
You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.
Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.
My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
In Spain, they show many Premier League games on TV, and it is an inspirational league. Maybe I would like to play in the Premier League.
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.
Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.