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The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.
Sep 24, 2025
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'
All I know is what I have words for.
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me.
Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
Build what you want to see in the world.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.