"I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed, but never shamed."

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Yi Sun-sin

“I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.”
“I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.”
“He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.”
“The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.”
“With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.”
“The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”
“I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.”
“Worry is a complete circle of inefficient thought whirling about a pivot of fear. To avoid it, consider whether the problem in hand is your business. If it is not, turn to something that is. If it is your business, decide if it is your business now. If so, decide what is best to be done about it. If you know, get busy. If you don't know, find out promptly. Do these things; then rest your case on the determination that, no matter how hard things may turn out to be, you will amek the best of them - and more than that no man can do. Dr. Austen Fox Riggs”

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