The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
#quotes #missy-franklin #sports #happiness

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #happiness

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
#quotes #colum-mccann #democracy #stories

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
#quotes #george-berkeley #complaining

There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
#quotes #trevor-dunn #entertainment #music #new-york

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I would bring things to class that I had cooked at home. ~Giada De Laurentiis
#quotes #giada-de-laurentiis #cooking #childhood

I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
#quotes #mary-lambert #emotional #sensitive

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
#quotes #samuel-p-huntington #united-states #black

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
#quotes #sigmund-freud #gratification #maturity

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
#quotes #donald-miller #christianity

Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
#quotes #elbert-hubbard #motivation

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
#quotes #harry-blamires #religious #christianity

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
#quotes #robert-smith #achievement

I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
#quotes #alexander-wang #layers

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
#quotes #lillie-langtry #gardening #happiness

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #spring #seasons #human

I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
#quotes #randy-houser #parenting

I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
#quotes #david-petraeus #dream #happiness

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #loyalty

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
#quotes #mark-leyner #happiness

The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
#quotes #rick-riordan #the-little-mermaid

God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #trust

May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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