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 Procrastination is the thief of time.  Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose. She had believed the land was her enemy, and she struggled against it, but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways. I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved. When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? No one is satisfied with his fortune, or dissatisfied with his intellect. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Millions of angels are at God's command. A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. The very hairs of your head are all numbered. - Matthew Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use. The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. 
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