If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
ARTHUR ASHEWhen bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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