You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.
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Related Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t e... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... 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CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do n... ISABEL ALLENDE If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it. ERIC BERRY Be the Best YOU you can BE because only YOU can do that. LORRIN L. LEE Now do you understand why it's so important for you to grasp your belovedness? God won't change the ... JONATHAN MARTIN One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wing... K.J. KILTON Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor yo... PHILLIP GARY SMITH Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT Don’t expect from others what you can’t promise them yourself. VIKRANT PARSAI You don’t have to do it all. If unrushing your life feels overwhelming or impossible, consider tha... LARA CASEY whatever you do be gentle with yourself. you don’t just live in this world or ... SANOBER KHAN I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. RICHARD L. EVANS Some of us have deeper feelings for one over another. It can’t be helped. It’s chemistry. It’s... KATE MCGAHAN Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent. AMBER HURDLE You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS There IS a better future for you! Get rid of that negative and defeated attitude. Stop tearing yours... STEPHANIE LAHART Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa... PHILIP T. M. You can’t eliminate your past but you don’t have to be controlled by it. SYLVAIN REYNARD No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neigh... 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HERACLITUS Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do ... SAM OWEN Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinion... TINA FEY Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search ... HERACLITUS God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o... JOEY TALLADINO If you don't think it. You'll never do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Find a woman who will be your equal in every way. Don’t let yourself fall for someone who’ll put... CHRISTINA LAUREN The best way to celebrate your freedom is to LIVE it! Be you. Be free. Don’t just make freedom som... STEVE MARABOLI Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself ... JENNIFER ELISABETH You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind; no man is known for a skillful h... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it. KINDLE KORNER Whatever you had to do to survive, whatever you did from spite or rage or selfishness … I don’t ... SARAH J. MAAS You are the architect of your life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come t... CAROL S. DWECK If you want something fine for life, you owe it to yourself to have it or reject it outright. Don’... LILY CHATTERJEE Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY You’re trying to carry everything in your life by yourself. And you are falling under the weight o... LACEY STURM Make time for yourself. How are you spending your time? Are you doing the things you love?Are you ma... AKIROQ BROST If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, th... DONNA LYNN HOPE You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th... NICHOLAS SPARKS Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done i... ROBIN HOBB Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER
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SHEEN A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy. FULTON J. SHEEN We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is n... FULTON J. SHEEN When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren... FULTON J. SHEEN A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks he... FULTON J. SHEEN Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are alw... FULTON J. SHEEN Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. FULTON J. SHEEN Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you... FULTON J. SHEEN Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif... FULTON J. SHEEN Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. FULTON J. SHEEN Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday. FULTON J. SHEEN The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to... FULTON J. SHEEN Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it ... FULTON J. SHEEN There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is... FULTON J. SHEEN There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; ... FULTON J. SHEEN Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is... FULTON J. SHEEN His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti... FULTON J. SHEEN Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br... FULTON J. SHEEN Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of... FULTON J. SHEEN In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptati... FULTON J. SHEEN Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. FULTON J. SHEEN All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ... FULTON J. SHEEN Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine r... FULTON J. SHEEN