But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.
- Topic: Learning, Life, Time
- Location: Lake Powell
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
God has no religion.
And God helped me.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
