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"We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself."
"I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing."
"Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you."
"We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked."
"You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you."
"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve."
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."
"Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system."
"Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem."
"I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral."
"I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it."
"True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become."
"Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly."
"I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed."
"When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies."
"I'm constantly thinking."
"It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."
"I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick."
"Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs."
"If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here, you know."
