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Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it’s truth that prevails.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.