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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.
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
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.
Once we decided to be in this industry, we have to be ready for everything. You have to be strong but hard working. No pain, no gain.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.
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.
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