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Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Jon Bon Jovi

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Thomas Henry Huxley

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Don Marquis

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Mira Nair

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Wm. Paul Young

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Paulo Coelho

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Samuel Johnson