You are nothing. We tried to ignore it, but sometimes we caught ourselves repeating what history said, mumbling along, brainwashed: I am nothing. We drank too much, smoked too much, were abusive to ourselves, to each other. We were bewildered. There is a great darkness bearing down on our lives, and no one acknowledges it.
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The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere ... 
Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... 
Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. 
Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, ... 
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. 
You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such ... 
Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wou... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." 
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think ... 
We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... 
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stoppi... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were ren... 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... 
He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ours... 
Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. 
We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" tha... 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... 
For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far... 
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ... 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond meas... 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... 
You think too much," Lucas said to me on the banks of the White River the next day.
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth... 
Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too b... 
We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or wh... 
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t... 
I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises wh... 
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stop... 
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar... 
I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me. 
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ... 
I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to ... 
Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu... 
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. 
You're some freaky shit, my brother. You really are 
You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. 
Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. 