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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.