You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
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