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“When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.”
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“It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.”
Source : "The New Evangelical Leaders". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 29, 2007.
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“Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.”
Source : Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.”
Source : A.H. Almaas (1998). “Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization”, p.174, Weiser Books
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“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
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“When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.”
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“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.”
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“I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.”