“We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.”
- Stedman Graham
in Build Your Own Life Brand
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“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
“Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.” - [from the trailer]
“You never know what’s coming for you.”
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
“I want to remember us, just as we are now.”
“In the end, you have to let go.”
“I look a lot older than I really am.”
Benjamin Button: I was thinking how nothing last, and what a shame that is.
Daisy: Some things last.
“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”
—Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
“Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?”
Lao-Tzu
“There is such a concept of loss. Loss and how we react to loss. We think of things in a straight line: birth-life-death. That’s not really how it works. You take those ends and you bend it into a circle so it’s birth-life-death-REbirth. So you have to be prepared when you lose something - when you go through a divorce, when your mother dies, when you lose your house you have to understand that nature has it no other way. There is a rebirth. The death is painful. It doesn’t change the pain of the death. But you gotta stay awake and stay focused for what’s the rebirth that God is about to offer you.”
- Will Smith, on Oprah 11/6/2008
“The imperative is to define what is right and do it.”
- Barbara Jordan
“…what you hope for in this life anyway, is to find what it is that you love the most and then just follow it. Follow it as far as you can.”
- James Taylor
interview with Tavis Smiley, Oct. 8, 2008
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.”
- Abraham Maslow
“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. supreme court justice