If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.
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Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and... BIBLE I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I... BETHANY HAMILTON If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxi... MARTIN HEIDEGGER I tell myself that water is my medicine and that to stay well, I have to drink a gallon of it every ... CIARA Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make... GAYLE FORMAN She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me w... GAYLE FORMAN Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense. GAYLE FORMAN If you stay, I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you ... GAYLE FORMAN All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know tha... GAYLE FORMAN But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way... GAYLE FORMAN And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies,... GAYLE FORMAN It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't fe... GAYLE FORMAN kau bisa saja mamiliki keinginan, rencana, tapi pada akhirnya, kau tidak bisa mengendalikannya TIA She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second ... GAYLE FORMAN I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and h... ADAM RICH I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day. EMILY VANCAMP When Sherri asks questions about who would find me if I killed myself and what their reaction would ... ALBERT BORRIS In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first. PRAVINEE HURBUNGS I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what th... SONIA SOTOMAYOR If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for ... AUDRE LORDE I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay ... JUSTIN TRUDEAU If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it... WILL FERRELL I'm pretty competitive. It seemed like a challenge for me and I love to challenge myself. LINDA METZGER I want to stay here as long as I can, hopefully until the finals. PAVEL NEDVED I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be abl... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed? KARA LEE CORTHRON You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your... C. JOYBELL C. Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can. FRANK SINATRA I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. Y... VIJENDER SINGH
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