Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!… It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.

"The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery."

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

The purpose for the passage of time is to allow a person to become better, wiser, to express more and more of one’s beingness.

It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

It is reported that more than 90% of what we worry about never happens. That means that our negative worries have less than a 10% chance of being correct. If this is so, isn’t being positive more realistic than being negative? Think about your own life. I’ll wager that most of what you worry about never happens. So are you being realistic when you worry all the time? No!

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