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"What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all."
"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg."
"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."
"The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time."
"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."
"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"
"I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
"If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow."
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
