"Four years ago, I was thinkingâ€¦ no Olympics, who am I? Probably in â€™04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. Thatâ€™s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didnâ€™t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that weâ€™re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesnâ€™t have to define us as a human being. Thereâ€™s so much more to being human than all of this."

-- Raj Bhavsar

#Team Quotes #Gymnastics Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.”

Source : John Donne (2003). “One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne”, p.267, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.25, Macmillan
“I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious.”
“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.”
“Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.”
“It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.”
“Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.”
“I desire to know wherefore I am banished?”

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