It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
And it’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.
It’s not where you are, it’s where you’re going…
And it’s not about the things you’ve done, it’s what you’re doing now.
Everybody gets knocked down — how quick are you gonna get up?
c: No. We have to be strong.
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Mahoney: Now we wait.
Magorium: No. We breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. Our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls injest.
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”
It doesn’t matter how it happened, or why. What matters is it did.
Where do you want to go? was his response. I don’t know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.
...>>“Being someone’s friend isn’t about what you should have done. It’s about what you do.”
...>>“it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
...>>“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“better to be inside affecting conversation and process, then[sic.] outside looking in”
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“Doing things — changes things.
Not doing things — leaves things exactly as they were.”
God: It’s everyone’s.
I can run like the wind, and I can be still as a stone. But, best of all, I can decide which.
If you don’t know how you got where you are, you probably weren’t watching where you were going.
We can’t help who we love. But we can help who we are. We can decide to become ourselves.
There is no point in going unless we get what we came for.
...>>They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Making ammends requires much more than saying I’m sorry. It means learning to change. You need to earn your forgiveness.
...>>Information is incapable of harm in and of itself.
Ideas are neither good nor bad, but merely as useful as what we do with them. Only actions can cause harm.
show me what you do, and I’ll tell you what you believe.
...>>If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always got.
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.”
“Our forefathers died for the pursuit of happiness. Not for the sit around and wait for happiness.”
“No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
“It’s no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it.”
I think the real political divide increasingly is not between left and right, but between those who are intrigued by what is happening and wish to shape it, and those who fear the future, and want to stop it.
Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.
“I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”
“Idleness … does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class.”
..the alarm clock. Heavens! What evil genius brought together those two enemies of the idle—clocks and alarms—into one unit?
...>>“there’s no such thing as a mistake. there’s what you do, and what you don’t do.”
“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”
"To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go.
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