Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
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Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
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Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
The worst men often give the best advice.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
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