"Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle."

-- Jack Paar

#Race Quotes #Long Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

Source : David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.
“Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.”

Source : Yvonne Zipter (1988). “Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime”
“I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.”
“Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.”
“People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.”
“A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.”
“The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sides. The more we become about the issues, the more successful we are.”
“The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.”

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