Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

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When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.