"There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress."

-- Rulon Gardner

#Stress Quotes #Reality Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There are certain times when you can maybe intimidate certain people to force them to make a mistake. There are other people you know that you've got to make a clean pass. I try to make clean passes. That's something that I've been doing since I was 7 years old and that's the way I like to do it. It doesn't mean I always do it that way, but that's the way I prefer to do it.”
“In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson (1998). “Dom Casmurro”, p.146, Oxford University Press
“As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.”

Source : Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (2002). “Amelia's War”, p.259, Scholastic Inc.
“It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.”
“Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.”
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.”
“Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.”

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