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"Lately I've been wrestling with a term I saw in a Teddy Kennedy story, in which after he bailed out of the presidential race, he became 'liberated from his ambition." – From a friend... "I think good gets better. " – Christopher McCandless, Into The Wild "I can't think of one reason big enough not to lie and one small enough for it not to matter. " – Gone Baby Gone "A true soul mate is a mirror; the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever. Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it." – Eat, Pray, Love "We would be better off seeking what was "good enough" instead of seeking the best. (Have you ever heard a parent say, 'I want only the 'good enough' for my kids'?)" – The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz "Always remember, to every reality there is a shadow. Just because you see a woman standing at a bus stop doesn't mean she's waiting for a bus. Eyes closed don't mean sleep. Good-bye doesn't mean gone." – A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska "Choosing well is especially difficult for those determined to make only the best choices, individuals refered to as 'maximizers.'" – The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz " ...Can you get to a future if your past is present?" – Unknown episode of Sex in the City "And, now that life had so much human promise in it they resolved to go back to their own land, because the years after all, have a kind of emptiness, when we spend too many of them on a foreign shore. We defer the reality of life, in such cases, until a future moment, when we shall again breathe our native air; but, by and by, there are no future moments; or, if we do return, we find that the native air has lost its invigorating quality, and that life has shifted its reality to the spot where we have deemed ourselves only temporary residents. Thus, between two countries, we have none at all, or only that little space of either, in which we finally lay down our discontented bones. It is wise, therefore, to come back betimes, or never." – The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne "I am two women: one who wants all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give; and another who wants routine, family life, and all that can be planned and achieved." – Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho "... America is not us and them. I think of what Ron Reagan said of his father a few weeks ago, and I want to say this to you tonight: I don't wear my religion on my sleeve, but faith has given me values and hope to live by, from Vietnam to this day, from Sunday to Sunday. I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. And whatever our faith – whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country. These aren't Democratic values. These aren't Republican values. They're American values. We believe in them. They're who we are. And if we honor them, if we believe in ourselves, we can build an America that is stronger at home and respected in the world. So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, 'What if?' ..." – Text of John Kerry's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Boston, July 24, 2004
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