"It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness."

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Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". Live chat, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

Karen Duffy

#Journey Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Odyssey Quotes

“Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.”
“Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher.”
“Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.”
“You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.”
“In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.”

Source : "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.
“I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.”
“When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.”
“I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone.”

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