"My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life."

-- Chelsea Clinton

#Grandmother Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Passed Away Quotes

“I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.”
“You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.”
“No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.”

Source : Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.”
“Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life, Memoirs,&c. of Algernon Sydney”, p.112
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
“Left behind as a memory for us. [Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]”
“I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.”

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