Nothing
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
When young people are powerful, our Party and People's Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games — nothing like saving the world.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
