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"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."
"Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant."
"The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry."
"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."
"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex."
"The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so."
"Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost."
"There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are."
"I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan."
"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
"Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?"
"It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success."
"And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed."
"I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families."
"Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions."
"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."
"Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment."
"I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to."
"Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do."
