"The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success."

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Source : "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, February 14, 2012.

R. J. Palacio

#Running Quotes #Average Quotes #Years Quotes

“There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.”

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“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”
“A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.”
“On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.”
“The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.”
“Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.”

Source : Screen Junkies Interview, www.screenjunkies.com.
“I never want to be the poster guy. It's not me.”
“Nothing adventured, nothing attained”

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