“She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.”
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“If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.”
“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
“Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.”
“Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance”
“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
“My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.”
“My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.”
“A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.”
“Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.”
“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”
“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”
“My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.”
“Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”
“When I'm on purpose - when I'm allowing Source to come through - it's always there. At those times, I'm not focused on any ego sense about how much I'm going to make, how well a book is going to do, whether people are going to buy it, or any of that. I just go to a state of awe and gratitude - I'm deeply, profoundly grateful - and it just works. The first words out of my mouth every morning are "I thank you."”
“Everything I need now is here”
“Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.”
“The more you give away, the more you get back.”
“I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.”
“Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.”