"Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Aug 01, 2013

Kara Goucher

#Dream Quotes #Running Quotes #Believe Quotes

“One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]”
“The questions I would have liked to ask people were: â€˜Are you in love? What are you reading?”
“If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.”
“I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with--our selves, others, and life itself. Openness--the heart's pure, unconditional yes--is love's essence. And warmth is love's basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes--the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love.”
“The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.”
“The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.”
“We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.”

Source : Sandra Fluke's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.”

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