"Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley"

-- Alex Haley

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“The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.”
“In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.”
“But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. Itâ€™s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.”

Source : Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“The important things are always simple.”
“Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.”
“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”
“In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.”

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