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"Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me."
"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
"We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied."
"It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening."
"When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it."
"Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force."
"One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it."
"The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you."
"When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic."
"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."
"Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head."
"Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly."
"Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it."
"The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are."
"I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead."
"You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait."
"You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self."
"You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking."
"Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale."
