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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • School
  • Think

• In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • View
  • Potential
  • Indian

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Christian

• Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Iron

• I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Me
  • Ballet
  • Teachers

• It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Control
  • Diet
  • Sensa

• I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Think
  • Man
  • Editing

• I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Said

• Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Responsibility

• When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Words

• A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Water
  • Sweet

• The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Want
  • Free

• That ev'n my buried Ashes such a snare Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air As not a True-believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • True
  • Air

• Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

  

  Maxwell Maltz