"Everyone is a genius at being themselves"

-- Thelonious Monk

“I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.”

Source : "Meet the Cast of Lemonade Mouth!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. April 13, 2011.
“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”

Source : Michela Wrong (2000). “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo”, Fourth Estate
“Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.”
“It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.”

Source : Elizabeth Noble (2011). “When You Were Mine: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster
“After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.”
“I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.”
“Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.”
“For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.”

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