You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own "selfish" desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer... Be the example. Push, reach and stretch-h-h-h. Attain, gloat and revel. And during the journey, your light will shine on all our paths while reavealing the truths you came here to know. -- Mike Dooley, from Choose Them Wisely
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
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Salvation for a race, nation, or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races, and the struggle must be continuous, for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationships.
A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979).—Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph, a Biographical Portrait, epigraph, p. vii (1972).
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman, quoted in "Newsweek"
