"To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones."

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Roberta Bondar

#Attitude Quotes #Reality Quotes #Space Quotes

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Source : Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com
“I never went out looking for glory.”
“The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues”
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books
“For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.”
“I've killed my soul by playing the victim.”
“Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.”
“The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?”

Source : "An action figure for the books" by Devin Rose, articles.chicagotribune.com. August 3, 2003.

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