To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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