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"I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation."
"You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to."
"You could try to live monogamously. Good luck."
"A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words."
"If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with."
"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."
"I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!"
"It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."
"But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed."
"Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil."
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
"Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine."
"In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language."
"Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling."
"I don’t really care what I look like that much, and I think women out there should just be happy with the way they look. They shouldn’t really try to conform to any kind of stereotype. Just be happy and hopefully healthy."
"All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future."
"I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else."
"I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best"
"The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying."
"Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind."
