Way
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Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.
I'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward.
If you want to stand with me as a single mom — and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do — please don't appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.
It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember — God permits U-turns.
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