What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell. — Tony Robbins

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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius

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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. - Marianne Williamson

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I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder. -- Walt Whitman

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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.

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Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitman

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.

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What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and you want to resonate with your audience. It's always a great compliment to have people appreciate and speak of the characters. I can go anywhere in the world, to places where people don't actually speak English, and people can say, verbatim, what I said on the show as Mr. Eko, which is great. That's fun!

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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