"I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing."

-- Stevie Wonder

#Smell Quotes #Rose Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that heâ€™ll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where heâ€™s not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out wonâ€™t be such a big deal. But weâ€™re not there yet,”

Source : "Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.
“I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.”
“We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.”
“The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately NOT AS GOOD AS someone who is stimulated by PASSION and INTERNAL WILL”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.”
“Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?”
“Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think”
“Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket”

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