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?
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it!
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”
“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.”
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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.
... truth will always catch you
Change alone is unchanging.
There is no point in going unless we get what we came for.
...>>Intellectual refinement’s one thing. Moral refinement’s something different.
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.
...>>show me what you do, and I’ll tell you what you believe.
...>>“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.”
The world doesn’t go away just because you want it to.
Kyle: That’s not important.
Ann: What is?
Kyle: Knowing who I am.
Every new decision is another chance to do the right thing.
“it’s a moment’s shame to ask. it’s a lifetime’s shame not to ask.”
When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future.
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Holding your hands over your eyes does not mean that other people cannot see you.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
“Know, think, choose, do.”
...we must be saved by the final form of love which is *forgiveness*.”
...>>When the ground starts moving beneath their feet, they reach for answers that seem solid, even if they are simplistic.
...>>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.
“Maybe doing nothing’s better than doing this.”
Every moment is another chance to turn it all around.
‘’The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.’’
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.”
if there is something you would die for, then you have something to live for.
“the unexamined life is not worth living.”
“to thine own self be true.”
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