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"I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she"
"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."
"What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'."
"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."
"He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."
"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
"I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming."
"You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this."
"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
"Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day."
"I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped."
"Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago."
"And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him."
"Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do."
"Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face."
"God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important."
"No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death."
"But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty."
"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"
"In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not."
