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<|endoftext|>purpose: For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>books: There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: People happy in love have an air of intensity.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: I keep water in my pockets, as portable fish tanks. My love letters often get soggy with sentimentality.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>arts: People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>quotes: Every time you give away love without any expectations, you become richer.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: My capacity for happiness,"he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>knowledge: Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>philosophy: We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats' feet over broken glassIn our dry cellarShape without form, shade without colour,Paralysed force, gesture without motion;- The Hollow Men<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>success: I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>death: Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>faith: ...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>books: I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>mind: Rhode Island State Motto Hope.Not much here but at least we have Family Guy.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: Things do not change; we change.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>hope: The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>writing: Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: Warren Buffett chuckled and said to me "I hope it's not my bad habits"Good Habits once established are just as hard to break as bad habits and bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. So what are you going to do about it?<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>arts: Cleanliness is the scourge of art.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>god: When your will is God's will, you will have your will.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>soul: We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>books: He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>purpose: California Haiku "After my boob jobI'm taking acting lessons.Fuck's fifty, no anal.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>happiness: I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>faith: A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>education: You can develop your talents to the highest level.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>romance: He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>friendship: Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>poetry: The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>arts: Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>friendship: I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>success: You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>writing: You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>funny: I make love like I make coffee. Tuesdays and Thursdays I offer free refills.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>arts: Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>death: I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>writing: No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>funny: If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>hope: I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: Everyday gratitude sweetens what appears flavorless and brightens all that appears dim.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>wisdom: It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>romance: But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>success: Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>truth: The unexamined life is not worth living.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>science: My dream, is to dream, a dream.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>relationship: Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>arts: I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>writing: You can fix anything but a blank page.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>books: Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>philosophy: All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>education: The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: You asked why I couldn't forgive you,"Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: Life is short, the art long.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>faith: Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>relationship: I had a dream about you last night.. You kept screaming at Ted Danson to pour you a drink.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>religion: There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>knowledge: Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>books: Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: In the long second before everyone absorbs what just happened, I see the angel rolling his eyes heavenward, like a teenager in the presence of overwhelming lameness. Some people just have no sense of gratitude.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>faith: The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>friendship: I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: As soon as you cross the county line into where all the wealthier people live, the weather is suddenly sunnier and warmer. Even at night.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>wisdom: To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>death: People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: Tomorrow is promised to no one.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>love: Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>truth: May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>inspiration: God helps those who strut their stuff.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>knowledge: The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>life: She wants to teach me to dance, but how do you instruct water to flow? I'm so fluid all you can do is swim in my moves and drink my essence.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>humor: I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>writing: Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>positive: Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.<|endoftext|>

<|endoftext|>books: The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look."Claire (Watermelon)<|endoftext|>