"You make a new life by making new choices."

-- Sean Stephenson

#Choices Quotes #New Life Quotes

“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.178, Vintage
“I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.”
“It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.”
“Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“Here's a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry, be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy now”
“A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.”
“You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.”

Source : David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage
“A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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