"Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run."

-- Kelly Holmes

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“Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. â€œI canâ€™t go back. Not yet. I canâ€™t leave.â€ And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. â€œYou donâ€™t have to,â€ she said, rocking me. â€œYou donâ€™t have to do anything you donâ€™t want to do, not anymore.â€ And I cried.”
“Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.”
“"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.”

Source : "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.
“We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative”
“The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.”

Source : "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.
“The Psalms are much more than poetry. Many of them bear the title, Maskil, or teaching psalm. They are thus intended to instruct the mind as well as to encourage the heart. They are designed not only to reflect a mood, but to show us also how to handle that mood; how to escape from depression or how to balance exaltation with wisdom.”

Source : Ray C. Stedman (1973). “Folk Psalms of Faith”, Regal Books
“You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.”
“I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.”

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