"The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope â€” all reside within you."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Adversity Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Cosmos Quotes

“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”
“I would have been a lot better off if Iâ€™d studied more when I was growing up, yâ€™know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.”
“Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.”
“For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.”
“Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.”
“If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.”
“Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.62
“I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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