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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.
If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.
I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Dreams do come true. Yes, even yours. But you have to meet them part way. Get up and do something towards them. Now.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.