If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
- Topic: Life, Purpose
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.
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As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
