You are more apt to find life's purpose by envisioning it than by trusting that you will know it when you see it.
Happy people are more often happy in spite of something than because of something.
We all arrive on this planet as aliens, the question being whether we will turn out to be friendly.
The hardest thing about finding a common sense solution is that there are eight billion people in the world, each with their own common sense solution.
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I have never quite nailed it.
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Meanwhile I tried to sell my life story to Hollywood, but they turned it down -- insufficient drug problem.
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Some fine day they will develop a drug for weight loss that, as a side effect, cures cancer, and it will be just my luck to have cancer but not need to lose weight.
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If you're a young person fool enough to think you can do something never before done, there are thousands of older and wiser people who will agree you're fool enough.
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You can be too personally involved to be objective, but the greater regret often lies in being too objective to become personally involved.
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Rarely does a person who can't handle the truth handle the lie any better.
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They who cannot find peace of mind in logic will contrive to find logic in peace of mind.
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Yes,it is still possible to call out a lie in America in the 21st century, if you are willing to be labeled a member of the truth police.
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It is unlikely that America's experiment in democracy will succeed if humanity's experiment in civility doesn't.
You know that evil is winning when it is seen not as evil but as a political difference we dare not discuss.
We learn from history that lofty achievement takes dedicated perseverance -- and so does small achievement.
It is noteworthy that the historical document most dedicated to saving the world says to no one, "Go forth and save the world." It says only, "Love thy neighbor."
No person of sensibility wishes to be praised to their face. It is the rare instance of where hearsay is the more trustworthy medium.
There is a continuing war between the mind's aspirations and the body's desire for comfort, the former striving to make you exceptional, the latter determined to make you like everyone else.
The great enemies of exceptionalism are food, clothing, shelter and health care -- the Four Horseman of the Everyday.
It must be admitted that people who spend their lives acquiring material things have the best yard sales.
I wonder sometimes if anyone has ever found true happiness in a comparison.
You cannot teach humility, but you can foster a self-esteem that displays itself as humility.
Most of what children learn from their parents does not come from the spoken word.
At some point in life it's your last chance, although it's never quite your last shot at your last chance.
There are times when you just have to look in a mirror and say, "I will if you will."
And, finally, never think that something that tests your patience is going to test just some of it.
There's nothing like someone saying, "You know better than that" to make you wonder what you ever did to make them think so.
I've learned this about making a good first impression -- that the more obvious the attempt, the better.
If I choose to believe that we're all God's children, it's because I'm darn sure it's all or none.
A phrase you hear a lot these days is, "You're overthinking this," which, to be honest, is not something I've noticed to be that widespread a problem.
I don't know if love conquers all, but it conquers the hard part, and a little forgiveness usually does for the rest.
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What skeptic has not, in the dark of despair
Or the shadow of anguish and grief,
Sent out from his heart a questing prayer
To the God of his disbelief?
