True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
If you want to be happy, be.
- Topic: Courage, Happiness, Self-esteem
- Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
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