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"Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise."

"Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation."

"Sometimes life gives you a little punch in the stomach... You just gotta catch your breath and keep going."

"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."

"People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams."

"At the end few things matter more than how well you loved those who love you. Love and honor your family."

"Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance."

"A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity."

"Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons"."


"Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust."

"At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week."

"If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past."

"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!"

"Education is meaningless without manners."

"Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all."

"Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance."

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

"The death of a dreamer does not always bring about the death of his dreams."

"Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer."

"Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man."

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new."

"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."


"For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."


"Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend."

"I improvise therefore I exist!"

"I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think."

"Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes."

"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."

"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless."

"No explanation is ever as good as not having one."


"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."

"In a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved."
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