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The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap. — Anna Quindlen

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. — John C. Maxwell

I realize the dust we return to is not the same dust from which we come. It is not that we come from ashes and nothingness and return to the same ashes and nothingness. The dust we return to has history. The ashes we become were touched, inscribed, detailed, adorned. They glowed. — Zoe Klein

I wonder who you'll marry now, Esther. — Sylvia Plath

The tools we used in Mercury were primitive, but the dedication of highly trained people offset the limitations of the equipment available to us in these early days and kept the very real risks under control. — Gene Kranz

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see. — C.S. Lewis

Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning. — Elana K. Arnold

My father was in charge of managing the farm. — Julia Child

I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill ... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money. — Tyra Banks

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror. — Hannah Arendt

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination. — Roald Dahl

What if our souls are connected to each other and flow together in and out of time like a giant woven tapestry? What if it was that simple and that real? The laws of physics state that energy cannot be destroyed, and we are made of energy. When each of us dies, that energy reenters the atmosphere. What if it does become part of the collective blanket of souls? Threads of energy that connect us to each other. What if it is our obligation to follow them, despite the knots and tangles, through to the end? — M.J. Rose

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes. — Joseph Cook

I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat. — Art Garfunkel