"People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me."

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Source : Source: visionlossresources.org

Marla Runyan

#Kids Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“there is no truly honest autobiography.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart
“It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.”
“We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.”
“Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.”
“I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.”
“I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.”
“One has not understood until one has forgotten it.”
“The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.”

Source : Sarah Ferguson (2010). “What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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