"I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors."

-- Michael Franti

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“Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”
“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”

Source : "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
“If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!”
“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”
“If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.55
“I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.”
“If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.”

Source : "On Being Your Own CEO" by Nell Merlino, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 08, 2012.
“We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.”

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