This is no dress rehearsal.
I’m not a politician.
First, youre going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.
Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realisticyou arent going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).
Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.
Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.
The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.
Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.
We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.
You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.
The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.
