"Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go."

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Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

Katharine Weber

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“Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.”

Source : Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”
“I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.”
“Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.”
“Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.”
“The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.”

Source : "Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui".
“I really like and singing, and songwriting and producing. It depends on the song and the mood and who I'm working with, what the song is about and where it came from, any number of things affect the levels of creativity. I try not to do too much delineating with my art. Really, it's art, so for me I don't have a most, I just really enjoy my entire process.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.”
“Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.”

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