"I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them."

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Source : Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Balance Quotes

“The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.”
“Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity”

Source : Budokwai Bulletin, April 1947.
“Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.”
“It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.”
“Ah. Medieval-style ransom.â€ Toot looked confused. â€œHe did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.â€ There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them backâ€” poorly. â€œHey, peanut gallery,â€ I said. â€œThis isnâ€™t as easy as Iâ€™m making it look.â€ â€œYouâ€™re doing fine,â€ Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. â€œCome on, Toot,â€ I said, and walked over to Hook.”
“To love is to transform; to be a poet.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1991). “Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.”
“And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.”

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