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You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.


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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.



Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.



Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.



When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.



Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.



Change is never easy, but always possible.

Change is never easy, but always possible.



Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.



Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.



Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.



If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.





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At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.)



All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.



Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.



I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!

I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!



Dalai Lama's got nothing on me.

Dalai Lama's got nothing on me.



Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.



When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.



In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.



There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.




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