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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.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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.
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'.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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.
Openness, respect, integrity — these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people — black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants — to make up America.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.