I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic JohnsonRead
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
Interpretation
Being at peace with oneself means prioritizing personal values over external opinions.
This quote by Magic Johnson emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and the strength that comes from within. It suggests that true peace comes when individuals refuse to let others control their actions or define their identity, encouraging autonomy and self-determination.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-worth.
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It's a memory I will always cherish.
HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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