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"Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through."
"We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice."
"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces"
"Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains."
"In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness."
"I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform."
"What makes life interesting are the challenges we face."
"It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing."
"I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them."
"Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it."
"I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face."
"And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow."
"my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water)."
"In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue."
"Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!"
"I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one."
"Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out."
"It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last."
"You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face."
"My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought."
