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The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
[On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage:] It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.
To be nobody-but-yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure…make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
It was from an old friend who. thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.
