It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will k... OSHO See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s... SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being lov... DAVID RICHO ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... 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KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Dare to dream, dare to love, and dare to live. DEBASISH MRIDHA We are the books we read and the things we love. CATH CROWLEY How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo... NORMAN VINCENT PEALE ...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a t... LAINI TAYLOR You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become. EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru... SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool. L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great. EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they... PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. 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