"Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect."

“Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future.”

Source : "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

“People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change”

“As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.”

“For Paul, the Holy Spirit was an experienced reality.”

“I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident.”

Source : "Style & Substance: Amy Carlson". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. November 11, 2001.

“I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome”

“I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.”

“The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”