"Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion."

-- Sterling W Sill

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“I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service calledÂ â€¦Â YouTwit-face.”
“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.”
“On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are on a clear day, how it will astound you that the glow of your being outshines every star! You feel part of every mountain, sea and shore. You can hear from far and near a world you've never heard before And on that clear day you can see forever more”

Source : "Song: 'On a Clear Day'". 1965.
“God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.”
“Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy.”
“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.”

Source : Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.242, Red Lemonade
“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

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