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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Smiles are everywhere, and smiles can spread. You can smile to someone, and they'll smile to another person, and it goes on and on and on.
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.
My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
I don't know. I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.
The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.
Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.
There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.