"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Success Quotes

“The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.”
“Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.”
“We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.”
“The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.”
“I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered. The idea that some subjects are male and some are female is just preposterous to me. It's reductive and nonsensical, to separate writers and subjects and plots along gender lines. It's meaningless.”
“We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.”
“You can't have healing without sickness.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

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