"Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do."

-- Edwin Moses

#People Quotes #Let It Go Quotes #Want Quotes

“We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.”
“Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.”
“I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice.”

Source : "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint
“I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).”

Source : Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books
“What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.”
“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.”
“If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.”

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