It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
Let every man be master of his time.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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