"We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

#Lbj Quotes #Guardian Quotes #Gates Quotes

“But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.”
“The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.”
“I'm curvy and wholesome.”
“Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.”

Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.
“Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at somethingand much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, 'Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,' our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.”
“If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.”
“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.”
“If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.”

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