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To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
You were made perfectly to be loved — and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.
Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor'.
Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.
You have to have the right mind-set.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
You have to create something from nothing.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.
One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth — not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.