
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
- Topic: Amazing, Discovery
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Wonder is the mother of all science.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
