"The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others."

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Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.190, Macmillan

Mary E. Pearson

#Identity Quotes #Should Quotes #Feels Quotes

“What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.”
“When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.”
“A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes...”
“I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”
“The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.”
“The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.”
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey
“I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.”

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