Ill Quotes - Page 8

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.

Without love we fall ill.

The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

God is on the side with the best artillery

We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make sure illegal immigrants stop storming our borders. We must establiesh the correct criteria, such as our need for certain job skills or education, for granting the right to immigrate into the United States.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.