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| 401 | You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft. | |
| 402 | You can't force experiments or people to conform to your world view! The universe doesn't work that way! | |
| 403 | You don't have any idea what love really is. You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, that longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred. You taint the very concept of love... with your corrupted longing for it. You want me only to justify your hatred, to be your partner in self-loathing. To truly love someone..., you must revel in their existence because they make life all the more wonderful. If you think existence is corrupt, then you are sealed off from the fruition of such a relationship, from what love really is. | |
| 404 | You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't.... When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due. | |
| 405 | You have cause for bitterness.... But please... remember that it wasn't the Faith that committed those actions - it was the man who used that Faith for his own worldly purposes! | |
| 406 | You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days. | |
| 407 | You must find within yourself the ability to help yourself, the free will to accomplish what you must. Only in that way can you truly succeed in life. | |
| 408 | You never love anything like you love your children. And nothing can make you angrier. | |
| 409 | You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don’t seem like people at all no more, but something else. | |
| 410 | You underrate yourself.... You did it all yourself. Opportunity is not accomplishment. You did it, by ingenuity, by resourcefulness, by gut. You really are as good as you thought you were, and you have the potential to be much better. | |
| 411 | You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. Don't argue with them, just listen. It’s remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk. | |
| 412 | Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too. | |
| 413 | You're right, of course - the really wealthy will keep their privileges, no matter who sits on the throne. | |