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We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
You will learn more from your failures than your successes — so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.
