"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk."

-- Oprah Winfrey

#Believe Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I did get a degree in special education.”
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!”

Source : "Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need'" by Varun Piplani, www.mediamatters.org. August 21, 2008.
“Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.”

Source : Calvin S. Hall (1979). “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
“What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ...”
“I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!”
“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.182, Granta
“Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.67, Penguin
“The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,' ... We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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