"Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do."

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Source : Eric Greitens (2015). “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Eric Greitens

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“People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.â€”or America.”

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“The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.”

Source : Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet
“I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.”
“When we have a new heart, we become new people, and then we have a new society, then we have a new nation.”
“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”
“If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures ... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.”
“I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.”

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