"Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better."

-- Tom Robbins

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“In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rhonda Britten from Oct 02, 2015
“Thank God in advance for what's already yours.”
“Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.”
“Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.”
“The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.”

Source : "Brussels is hostile to Scottish independence 'because it is weak'" by Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
“There's a line in the Arthur Russell documentary where his partner talks about how Arthur is really interested in process. He never felt like anything was finished, and he would even work on things after they'd been released. I definitely relate to that.”
“We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.”
“I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.”

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