"Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light."

-- Marty Nemko

#Acceptance Quotes #Light Quotes #Balance Quotes

“I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.”

Source : "Chelsea Clinton Says She Doesn't 'Care About' Money" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2014.
“My outlook on life is so much clearer.”

Source : "Jason Derulo Recovering Well From Broken Neck Thanks To Girlfriend Jordin Sparks ", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2012.
“For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.”
“If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.”
“That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.”

Source : Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation
“Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.”
“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”

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