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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.
I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.
I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago!
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
Ku’Sox was indeed a demon. In. The. Sun. I needed answers, but I wanted them from Al, not…Cute Socks here.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'
I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.
Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
For some interesting reason, I also like a guy who has a littte bit of a belly. I think that's really cute.
If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.
If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation