"I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life."

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Lazarus of Bethany

#Simple Quotes #Facts Quotes #My Own Quotes

“When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?”

Source : "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.
“I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxietyâ€”for I had been trembling even in infancyâ€”lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.”

Source : Hayden Carruth (1998). “Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press
“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”
“So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.”
“A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.”
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.”
“In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.”
“It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.”

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