Life 47...

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -Walter Anderson

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without shielding yourself from happiness.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. -Maya Angelou

Why do we do that? Not experience what we can when we can? We're there, within thirty yards or thirty feet or thirty football fields of incredible, beautiful, natural treasures, and we just sit dumbly in a car. Look out at stuff like we're watching a movie. -Amanda Boyden, Pretty Little Dirty

It seems that differ ent people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there' s me... - Ani DiFranco

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Anthony Robbins

We are punished by our sins, not for them. --Elbert Hubbard

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people in the whole world. I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid worlds. Not just one world, hundreds of them, maybe thousands -Neil Gaiman

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. -Oprah

Better a true sadness than a false joy. Better a saddened love than a joyful hatred. -Andre Comton-sponville

A country is not just what it does it is also what it tolerates.

'Keep looking up', Mama used to tell me. 'There's nothing on the ground but your feet.'-The Bright Forever 

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers... I kind of wanted to be a vampire -Angelina Jolie

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. -Mark Twain

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly -Nietzsche

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. -Jim Rohn

It's interesting to cut yourself to pieces once in a while, and wait to see if the fragments will sprout. -- t. s. eliot

You have four years to be irresponsible here . Relax . Work is for people with jobs . You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends . So, stay out late . Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise . The work never ends, but college does. -Tom Petty

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