"Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going."
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"You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters."
"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
"To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living."
"We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter."
"In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter."
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better."
"The person you are matters more than the place to which you go."
"Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto."
"The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be."
"It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat"
"Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious."
"No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit."
"No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up."
"I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes."
"Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess."
"Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you."
"I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction."