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 Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.  Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. The present will not long endure. - Pindar Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it. Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway. The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. To lose Is to learn. Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger. Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you; all things are passing; God never changes. And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. 
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