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“There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements...”
“It’s not one of our finest hours.”
“Don’t limit yourself by what you’ve achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.”
“Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.”
“She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fingers. Once again, she felt that life was not treating her as it treated other people: it gave her ...”
“I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I don’t know h...”
“Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box faci...”
“In graduate school, early on, I once overheard a classmate talking in her office as I walked by. She didn't know I was there. She was gossiping about me to a group of our classmates & said I was th...”
“All great works start with mistake. Ain’t no exception in this fact.”
“God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.”
“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-...”
“When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about.”
“If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.”
“There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjo...”
“When it came to "getting away from it all," there really weren’t many places quite like the top of the tallest mountain in the world. He glanced around the summit, noting the other reason why he en...”
“With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life.”
“Don’t hold back because you’re afraid of hurting someone else. If your best friend wants to be a cheerleader and you make the team but she doesn’t, don’t feel guilty. If you end up earning more tha...”
“Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.”
“Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.”
