"When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you."

-- Johnny Weir

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“Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?”

Source : "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.
“We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.”

Source : Remark to Palestinians upon signing of the IsraelPalestine Declaration, Washington, D.C., 13 Sept. 1993
“A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.”
“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
“People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.”
“If I say, 'Hey, I'm Psy.' 'Psy?' 'The guy from the video on YouTube?' 'Oh.' I hate that. I've got to be more popular than the video. So I need to keep promoting myself.”
“For once, Evie didnâ€™t know what to say. She hadnâ€™t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.”

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