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You can go as far as your mind lets you.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash You never really fail until you stop wanting.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn’t have this spirit, chances are you won’t find it anywhere else in the organization.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Nothing happens until somebody sells something!
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash We are meant to use and increase whatever God has given us. And when we do, we shall be given more.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash If you have an idea and I have an idea – then we EACH have JUST ONE idea; but if you share your idea with me and I do the same, we EACH have TWO ideas!
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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I want to be a monster too.
Stephenie MeyerStephenie Meyer The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.
Gary ZukavGary Zukav Freedom is a spontaneous letting go of all desire and effort.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?
Stephenie MeyerStephenie Meyer Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac What we truly desire is living without desire.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
StendhalStendhal Power over the self and no desire to control anything else.
Kimmery MossKimmery Moss
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