Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
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Σεμνόστομός γε καὶ φρονήματος πλέωςὁ μῦθός ἐστιν, ὡς θεῶν ὑπηρέτου.
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Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.