Doing Quotes (page 644)

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I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats. Jack Kerouac

• good
• helpful
• saying

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'"Nothing," said the Prince."Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. James Thurber

• life
• age
• power

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness. Anais Nin

• work
• job
• worked

Work on yourself more than you do on your job Jim Rohn

• play
• growing old
• old

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing! Benjamin Franklin

• eyes
• sometimes
• what you want

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it. Meg Cabot

• religious
• new relationship
• relationship

When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point... R. Buckminster Fuller

• women
• world
• sharing

Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it. Bell Hooks

• reading
• thinking
• assignments

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. Virginia C. Andrews

• water
• true
• importation

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. Joan Didion

• mindfulness
• positive
• forward

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. Justin Bieber

• fate
• patience
• personal

Fate, with its mysterious and inexorable patience, was slowly bringing together these two beings charged, like thunder-clouds, with electricity, with the latent forces of passion, and destined to meet and mingle in a look as clouds do in a lightning-flash. So much has been made in love-stories of the power of a glance that we have ended by undervaluing it. We scarcely dare say in these days that two persons fell in love because their eyes met. Yet that is how one falls in love and in no other... Victor Hugo

• love
• loved
• means

I do. Love you, I mean. Nicholas Sparks

• die
• dead
• she

There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, carefully, but nothing left me with the impression that my ears had died. The wine was rapidly circulating through my system."I do believe that my ears aren't dying properly, " I said, disappointed. She shook her head. "That's okay. If your ears don't need to die, there's nothing wrong with them not dying. Haruki Murakami

• mind
• mindfulness
• minds

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick. Charles Dickens