"The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all."
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"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."
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"One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change."
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"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look."
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"But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs."
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"Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating your audience. You're not giving them the best story and the best direction and so forth."
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"If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power."
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"Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths"
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"If you convey God's words to someone only with the intention to utilize him in some way, you will never be able to establish the standard of the "Way." Give what you have to others with your sincere heart."
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"So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way."
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"Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all."
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"Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy."
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"Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul."
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"Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in."
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"A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul."
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"There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive."
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"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."
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"I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold."
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"Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively."
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"After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century."
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