Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Ira Hayes

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Keller

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

Madonna Ciccone

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going

Hlovate

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Joyce Cary

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Pat Riley

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. Explaining why the hero's woman must get shot

Steven Seagal

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

Dixie Lee Ray

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

Eric Liu

Dreams are free.

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