"Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you."

-- Etel Adnan

“An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.”
“Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.”

Source : "What’s Your Daily Offering?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.
“I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'”
“Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.”
“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.”
“Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.”
“It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.”
“God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!”

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