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You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

Will you wait for me forever?

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead.

Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.

I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens," I say, realizing that just "seeing what happens" is my version of "going for it.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

To live is to choose.

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

Live for yourself there's no one else more worth living for.

I think women are often taken for granted.

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all?

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.

When security comes, every man for himself

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity ...

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

God speaks in the silence of the heart Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Let no man thirst for good beer.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me.

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.

We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that . . . liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

Because...because...she came here with me.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.