"Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy."

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Robert Genn

#Joy Quotes #May Quotes #Welcome Quotes

“When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.”

Source : "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.
“Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.”
“Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.”
“Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.47, Oxford University Press
“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”
“What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.”
“My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.”
“Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.”

Source : Interview, 28 July 1955, quoted in James B. Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957).

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