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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish. - Author object (10)

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right. - Author object (10)

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. - Author object (10)

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. - Author object (10)

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. - Author object (10)

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - Author object (10)

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. - Author object (10)

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Author object (10)

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. - Author object (10)

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. - Author object (10)

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door - Author object (307)

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? - Author object (307)

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Author object (307)

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Author object (220)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Author object (220)

Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too. - Author object (547)

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. - Author object (497)

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Author object (497)

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. - Author object (497)

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. - Author object (224)