"Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure."

-- Erik Weihenmayer

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“There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.”
“When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the future, it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. And the expression comes from the center of your Being.”
“The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.”
“In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual.”
“Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.”
“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”
“I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?”
“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”

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