"Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me."

-- Eric Thomas

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“One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.”
“Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.”
“When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson (1787). “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honoured with the First Prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions. [One Line from Livy]”, p.52
“I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.”
“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mÃ¶bius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”

Source : Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.227, Random House
“the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath”
“Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.”
“I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.”

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