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"Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons."


"When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling."


"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

"The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself."

"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants."

"The only principle of Success in Life :'You must be present to win."

"Everything has a consequence to it."

"I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few."

"With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with."

"It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento."


"To be prosperous you must discover your gifting's, potentials and talents."

"On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don't want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is our ordinary life and it is very grounded in every day experience. For me, it is the daily practice of kindness, mindfulness, happiness, and peace."

"If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a 'work in progress', that's a sign to find someone else."

"Simply through the process of living life and adapting to change, you may have lost something which you once enjoyed or took for granted. Reclaim your power by speaking up, standing up, standing out, and taking action. Reclaim your positivity by surrounding yourself with happy and proactive people."


"They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil."

"There is a universal truth that all successful people know: Nothing is ever done until you take action."

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."


"Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing more excruciating than the boredom of those hours was the terror of knowing that any minute they could end."

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

"If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion."


"The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father."

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

"When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. ['Morning after']"

"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."

"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."


"If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals."

"A unified team is a force to be reckoned with. When teams pull together to serve a higher purpose, the synergy builds momentum and helps everyone head in the right direction. When people reunite, pull together, have each other's backs, and strive to achieve a clearly defined purpose, the culture is empowered to produce extraordinary outcomes."

"We live in a dimension where it is necessary to find a balance between wants and needs, or desires and yearning, or answers and questions. The totality of these makes up what we know as reality or truth, at least adolescent truth-facts. The fact of the matter is, you have to live in society one way or another, and there's a reason for that, so the base of engagement begins with acceptance of the variables as they actually are."

"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"

"I don't think-""Clearly. Why start now?"

"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."

"My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want."

"Betrayal is common for men with no conscience."

"Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?"

"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
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