"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Senior Quotes #Long Quotes #Toasters Quotes

“Think about it: everybody you know, everyone that you meet, also know about 250 people. So every time you cultivate a relationship with one new person, you have actually expanded your personal inventory by 250 people - every single time.”
“A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.”
“Iâ€™m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are all magical, and we all have something as specific to do as our fingerprint. And everybody should go out and do that. And I think between the ages of 15 and 32, donâ€™t worry about getting married, donâ€™t worry about settling down, donâ€™t worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.”

Source : "'The City' Boss Kelly Cutrone Shares Advice She Gave Whitney Port" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. December 1, 2009.
“It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.”
“Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?”
“Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.”
“The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.”

Source : "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.
“One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.”

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