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 Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.  Audible at five miles, painful at three, and lethal at one. Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man. Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology. I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me. All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others. It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life. The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them People hate, as they love, unreasonably. Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God. "Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company. Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. - Goethe Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. 
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