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You cannot open a book without learning something.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special', you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.
So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Sometimes comparing can be a good thing: it can inspire us to work harder and reach farther. But for the most part, excessive measuring yourself up against others — especially when it becomes a way to put yourself down — is a colossal waste of time. It's a dead end. It won't make you do anything except feel horrible.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth — not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
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