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“Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement ...”
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“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”
Source : "Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University Commencement Speech 2010" by Kit Eaton, www.fastcompany.com. August 26, 2011.
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“I think failure is just a part of life. You can't avoid it in anything. I just accept it as a part of life and something that's going to happen, and you use it to grow. You use it, you learn from it, and you grow from it.”
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“The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.”
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“It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.”
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“I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.”
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“I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.”
Source : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.150, Broadway Books
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“The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.”
Source : Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215