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"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
"To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent."
"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."
"I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage."
"Life is more valuable than money."
"The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds."
"Life is never fast track."
"Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions."
"It is not very important where you are, but where your thoughts are taking you is important."
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"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
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