A few rare individuals refuse to live limited lives. They drive through tremendous amounts of pain—from rejections and failures to shorter moments of embarrassment and anxiety. They also handle the small, tedious pain required for personal discipline, forcing themselves to do things we all know we should do.

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Higher forces must be experienced directly, and that takes effort. That means you'll face the same stark choice I did: demand proof that you'll never receive, or use the tools in the face of your doubts. When I stopped thinking and focused on the tools, my reward was life changing faith.

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Fear is almost always linked to an image you have of something terrible happening in the future. To develop courage, you have to give up this illusion of future certainty.

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“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too … raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”

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The Comfort Zone is supposed to keep your life safe, but what it really does is keep your life small.

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Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.

Sarah Bolger

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Michael McCaul

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Josh McDowell

I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.

Tony Judt

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

Theophilus London

I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

Eric Burdon

Great VCs do everything they can to make you successful. But just like your bank, credit card company, mortgage holder, etc. they are not confused where their long-term loyalty lies.

Steve Blank

Sonship is our destiny and our inheritance is wrapped up in discovery.

Blake Higginbotham

All religions have been made by men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

My mother was a role model.

Teri Garr

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.

Ron Livingston

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

Dakota Fanning

With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

Lynn Jurich

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

Ving Rhames

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

The Knesset was right to limit the president's tenure to seven years.

Reuven Rivlin

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.

Marilyn Ferguson

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

Willie Mays

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Ezra Taft Benson

In the Eucharist a communion takes place that corresponds to the union of man and woman in marriage. Just as they become one flesh so in Communion we all become one spirit one person with Christ.

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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Any day acting is an amazing day.

Kiernan Shipka

Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

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