If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- Topic: Amazing, Perception
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
