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I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best. ”
I think being a young woman is a strength. ”
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye. ”
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ”
We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle. ”
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change. ”
Delay is the enemy of progress. ”
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ”
A lot of what I write is very personal. ”
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. ”