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Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I'.
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life — unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours — the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
Openness, respect, integrity — these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
