"The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment."

-- Lauren Fleshman

#Attitude Quotes #Amputees Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
“We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.”
“If I heard a girl crying help I would go to save her; But you hardly ever hear those words. Dear children, you must try to say Something when you are in need. Don't confuse hunger with greed; And don't wait until you are dead.”

Source : Ruth Stone (1991). “Second-hand Coat: Poems New and Selected”
“If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.”
“Nature is only another chimera.”
“When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.”

Source : "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.
“I believe in a zone of privacy.”
“One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.”

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