"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better."

-- Lena Horne

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“I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.”

Source : "Britain's Got Talent", April 11, 2009.
“The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”
“We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.”
“To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.”
“The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.”
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
“You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.”
“It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!”

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