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Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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