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When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company. Audrey Hepburn
(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him. Paul Brunton
If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. Tom Stoppard
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it. Candace Bushnell
Groucho Marx quote: "While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose..."
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. Groucho Marx
Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around. Jay-Z
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "No one can make you feel inferior without your concent."
No one can make you feel inferior without your concent. Eleanor Roosevelt
...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level. Bruce Lee
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary John Steinbeck
Dean Koontz quote: "Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that..."
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. Dean Koontz
What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessd shape we know. In all... William Shakespeare
Russell Brand quote: "A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless..."
A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo... Russell Brand
Anthony Bourdain quote: "Without new ideas success can become stale."
Without new ideas success can become stale. Anthony Bourdain
Lee Iacocca quote: "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do..."
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca
It's a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the world's greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall of Western Europe, as it fell in the fourth century. It recurs to me every November, and culminates every December. I have to get over it as I can, and hide, for fear of being sent to an asylum. Henry Adams

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