"I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals."

-- Sally Ride

#Bad Ass Quotes #Order Quotes #Goal Quotes

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.”
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

Source : Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.463, Harvard University Press
“I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.”
“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.”

Source : EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156
“I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'”

Source : FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Sep 02, 2012
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

Source : "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.
“I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.”
“I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people ... to me, that's what the emerging game is all about.”

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