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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.
Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans put it, let's talk about gay people and abortion!
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.
I see a cute guy in Starbucks and I'm like... 'Oh, okay,' and I walk out. But who knows? Maybe I will ask somebody on a date soon!
So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.
It started with a simple ring, You became husband and wife, You progressed to being parents And you're still best friends for life.
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.