"Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate."

-- Elvis Stojko

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“I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.”

Source : "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.
“You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. Youâ€™ve got to show up and own it. If this is a manâ€™s world, who cares? Iâ€™m still really glad to be a girl in it.”
“Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.”
“What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (1992). “Silk and Secrets”, Onyx Books
“Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.”
“While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.89, Penguin
“AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.”
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”

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