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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows. You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

So as long as you live a moral/ethical life, you can do anything

Many people boast of going years without a vacation. But this is a sign of trouble - not commitment.

I am pushed by those who believe in me, but motivated by those who don't.

Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you.

A good friend will find time on his calendar, a great friend never checks.

The luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds true love.

You mark me the deepest.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

I want to be as open and forthright as I can...What do I think of Germans and Germanny? I totally reject the concept of mass and national guilt....Everyone, not just Germans should be aware of the first signs of a drift toward the abyss, and stand up against it.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

The soldier who has died due to the failure of his officer is a crime before God. So study hard, young Lieutenant. Prepare yourself well. Burn the midnight oil so that in your old age you will not look down at your hands to find his blood red upon them.

Courage is… When you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” -

Youth lived wisely like an old man, will soon reach old age enjoying one's youth.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.

Tell me what you were thinkin’
to treat somebody so
The care he took the
lengths to which he’d go…
…Coals are hot to walk
across without your shoes.

The Essence of Change in Emotional Systems

When any key member of an emotional system can control  his own emotional reactiveness and accurately observe the functioning of the system and his part in it, and he can avoid counterattacking when he is provoked, and when he can maintain an active relationship with the other key members without withdrawing or becoming silent, the entire system will change in a series of predictable steps.

Every single thing you do should be done mindfully, and given equal importance.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."