"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves."

-- Wilma Mankiller

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“Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?”
“Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.”
“A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.”

Source : The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001), entry for 26 Oct 1975.
“New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”
“Yoga's ultimate intent is to achieve something far deeper and more meaningful than just a better body or less stress and tension. Its ultimate aim is to help you hear your soul's call so that you can be consistently guided to make the best decisions - the ones that serve your highest state of wellbeing. In the process of doing so, you will necessarily be made more whole and act in such a way as to support the larger world of which you are a part.”

Source : "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
“I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.”
“I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.”

Source : "Iain Duncan Smith: I will tackle root causes of poverty" by Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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