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"If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
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"Life is too big for small dreams."

"Life is miraculous and love is the miracle."

"Life is not waiting for you. This moment is your life, so love it, live it, and enjoy it."

"Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost."

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!"

"Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away."

"Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one else has taken...yet."

"Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect."

"Life is what you think about it."

"If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life."
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

"Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle."

"That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church."

"Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there."

"No one in the world -- in the entire world -- know more -- knows Americans better or, odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit you, deal with you, and bear you, and sometimes even bleed and die with you, ever since we got here, that is, since both of us, black and white, got here -- and this is a wedding. Whether I like it or not, or whether you like it or not, we are bound together forever. We are part of each other."

"There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish."

"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges."

"She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away."
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