"Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love."

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Source : Bonnie Blair (1996). “A Winning Edge”, p.5, Taylor Trade Publishing

Bonnie Blair

#Dream Quotes #Dedication Quotes #Keys Quotes

“If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.”
“When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.”
“Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.”
“Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.”
“The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that. These manuscripts say that the early history of the Koranic texts is much more of an open question than many have suspected: the text was less stable, and therefore had less authority, than has always been claimed.”
“The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.”
“A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.”
“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

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