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“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“All work is noble, if it is legal and ethical, so do your best, whether you are first, second, or last. Never lose an opportunity, a job, an election, a competition, or anything else because you were too lazy to give it your best effort.”
― Buzz Aldrin, No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

“One of the keys to a successful life in any field is learning to take responsibility for ourselves, rather than waiting for someone else to do something for us.”
― Buzz Aldrin, No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

“Nothing is impossible, but you must have a passion for what you want to do and a plan for where you want to go if you ever hope to get there.”
― Buzz Aldrin, No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

“Always be open to advice from others, but what matters most is who you want to be, not merely what you want to do—”
― Buzz Aldrin, No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

“How do you measure your life? What moments have changed your life … or will change your life? Are you living or existing?”
― Buzz Aldrin, No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

“If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.”
― Andy Couturier, The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan

“if you stay in your imagination all the time, soon your dream doesn’t work anymore because dreams need reality as nutrients. Without nutrients, animals and plants die, and if the nourishment for your dreams runs out, the world of the dream gets smaller and smaller and eventually dies. So you need both: dream and reality, imagination and actuality. Thus you have to talk to all kinds of people, look at many kinds of plants, eat all kinds of things to make your imagination new, to keep that interior world fresh. Then your own world can expand and can grow.”
― Andy Couturier, The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan

“Even one second ahead of you is darkness.”
― Andy Couturier, The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan

“People are alive by means of the circulation of the spirit and the movement of the cosmos. Without those we couldn’t even be alive. And the systems of our world—academics, science, education, medicine, culture, and civilization—all are manifestations of this spirit but also of the current myths or cosmology that we are living. And these are what we must go beyond.”
― Andy Couturier, The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan

“What were the things that really challenged me, made me wake up to my way of thinking that presupposed an industrialized system? In five words. Gentle. Small. Humble. Slow. Simple.”
― Andy Couturier, The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan

“If you have to step outside of yourself, away from your values and soul to get your needs met, then you’re not really going to get your needs met.”
― Courtney Carver, Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More

“I’m a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what’s right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You’re a young man, Jal, a child who’s refused to grow up. Do it now, or you’ll die a young man.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where we roll in the bliss of ignorance.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“The world was full of ugliness, Sebastian knew that; ugliness, and ugly people. But you couldn’t let them win, those men who took what they wanted with never a thought or care for the ones who suffered and died as a result. You could never stop fighting them, never let them think that what they did was right or somehow justified. Never let them triumph unchallenged.”
― C.S. Harris, What Angels Fear

“Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.” I ran out of words under his gaze. “Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification,”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“You know what is right, Jalan. When the time comes, you’ll know. But knowing is never enough.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal—someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever.”
― C.S. Harris, What Angels Fear

“Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Do the times make the leader or does the leader shape the times? How can a leader infuse a sense of purpose and meaning into people’s lives? What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition?”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“American philosopher William James wrote of the mysterious formation of identity, “that the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely alive and active. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, ‘This is the real me!”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed,” Abigail Adams wrote to her son John Quincy Adams in the midst of the American Revolution, suggesting that “the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“With public sentiment, nothing can fail,” Abraham Lincoln said, “without it nothing can succeed.” Such a leader is inseparably linked to the people. Such leadership is a mirror in which the people see their collective reflection.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“When he came upon a passage that Struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper & keep it there until he did get paper,” she recalled, “and then he would rewrite it” and keep it in a scrapbook so that he could preserve it.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field—the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“In this first foray into politics, Lincoln also pledged that if his opinions on any subject turned out to be erroneous, he stood “ready to renounce them.” With this commitment, Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life—a willingness to acknowledge errors and learn from his mistakes.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“A finely developed sense of timing—knowing when to wait and when to act—would remain in Lincoln’s repertoire of leadership skills the rest of his life.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times