If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.
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That is the charity she designated and believes in.
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Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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