"I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count."

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Lisa Mangum

#Choices Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”
“Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.”
“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
“Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”
“Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.”

Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.
“I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved.”

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