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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what y... STEPHEN CURRY Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your c... ABAGAIL JOHNSON When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c... JILL ANZINGER Integrity is having strong moral principles and core values and then conducting your life with those... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from... SHANNON L. ALDER You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are... EMILY CARR I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II [THE DAILY BREATH] There are three important periods in your life. When you e... DRAGOS BRATASANU When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you... ALEX TREBEK At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide... MICHELLE OBAMA Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you ha... BRIAN TRACY Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, y... JODI PICOULT There is no other art in which you are your own artistic tool. It is so full. You use your body, you... LAURA THOMASSON Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it bec... EMMITT SMITH For writers, writing is a great activity to engage your mind, body, and life. As, you know: taking o... PRINCE AKWARANDU When you always stay positive, you least worry yourself over anything at all! You only take lessons ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your so... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your... ROY T. BENNETT When ever you allow your self to be non judgmental mostly to your self, and others, and with an open... ANGIE KARAN It's an awe-filled, wonderful, terrifying act to have a child, for you suddenly wear your heart on t... SUSAN MAY WARREN It gets your mind right. It keeps you about what is going, teaches you things, puts your mind in a p... DANNY WARE Your peace of mind can help you get relief from all pains in life. And if you want to follow the pat... RAKESH RAMAN When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the... ELISABETH SHUE Only when you realize that the people around you have become envious,of your work and silently wish ... SUZI SANDFORT Your mind expands when you give, your heart expands when you share, and your soul expands when you a... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All you need in life is to know thyself; to live with the knowledge that it’s just life and that's... JAMES A. MURPHY You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not. True, things don't ... LEILA SALES Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go t... DARLENE LOVE The end is a mystery, therefore think and act well now! Be robust, be focused and run the race with ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you choose high-quality delicious foods, your body will reward you with a trim figure and a lon... SUZANNE SOMERS I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken a... KIMBERLY QUINN You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control ... TOBEY MAGUIRE You tend to do all the exercises you enjoy, not the ones you need to do. Your body adapts to specifi... MICHAEL LARSON You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until ... LATIF MERCADO Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li... IAN MCKELLEN That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there t... ACE FREHLEY Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get ... RALPH MARSTON The day that you discover that you are in charge of your life is the day you turn your life around. 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JOHN O'DONOHUE It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited... JOHN O'DONOHUE Inspiration is always a surprising visitor. JOHN O'DONOHUE you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care... TIM O'BRIEN It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange... TIM O'BRIEN ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe... TIM O'BRIEN But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th... TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end. NUALA O'FAOLAIN There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib... JOHN O'DONOHUE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across... MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore... EDNA O'BRIEN I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t... P.J. O'ROURKE And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often... PATRICK O'BRIAN Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it. LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t... JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu... KERRIE O'CONNOR Having a Coke with You is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar... FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou... STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said. 'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar... FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi... ROSIE O'DONNELL Grace changes us and change is painful". FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at... EUGENE O'NEILL I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. FRANK O'HARA Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers. BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo... ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r... STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat... TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto... R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti... MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL