"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."
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"In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love"
"I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun."
"The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it."
"What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow."
"[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation."
"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
"Long days and pleasant nights"
"She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is."
"The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task."
"In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing."
"I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions."
"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."
"[My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn."
"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
"The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness."
"Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man."
"The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
"Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice."
"People are trading distance for dollars."