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Nathaniel E. Quimada

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SOTONYE ANGA Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Our life is our masterpiece, it's up to us on how we paint our story. It's up to us how we see the s...
NATHANIEL E. QUIMADA I am an engineer and hoping not just to change the world but also to touch human hearts.
NATHANIEL E. QUIMADA Fear your friends. Beware of your close friends. Be alert to whom you cast your trust. Because not a...
NATHANIEL E. QUIMADA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but n...
BOBBY KNIGHT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up,
add just a few more pieces to b...
MASTER JIN KWON stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'
NICOLE SCHERZINGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON 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 A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Children act on the words they hear.
May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We'd like to add a piece right now,
ED STEFANSKI If you crave something, I’ll be
the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva,
are m...
SYLVIA DAY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Come forth, Paladins!
Fulfill your destiny!
ANDRY CHANG To spread your wings like a butterfly,make your shell of cocoon strong with confidence and patience....
PRABHA To survive is to win.
ZHANG YIMOU Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmaini...
CHARMAINE SMITH LADD Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable
BARRY M. GOLDWATER This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS Faith is not to believe
Or pray that Providence
Will help a chieve
Anything we wan...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES You can always create the life you want.
Workhard to fulfill your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Be strong and capable. Do whatever you set your mind to. Fill yourself with strength and confidence.
VIKRANT PARSAI Dare to seek knowledge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Without confidence, there is no courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Preparation will relieve you from pressures. Stay prepared and you will not need to worry about pres...
RICHARD OKORIE The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is importa...
BOBBY KNIGHT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Color comes to life when you add a little love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We have confidence and capability to fulfill the glorious task of the motherland and the people.
FEI JUNLONG The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS No man is born to change the world, but just to add a piece of humanity to it.
ERALDO BANOVAC

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Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
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NATHANIEL BRANDEN What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nea...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a ki...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
NATHANIEL EMMONS Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you w...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.
NATHANIEL LEE While foulest fiends shun thy society.
NATHANIEL LEE Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the consciou...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the bo...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind a...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resis...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly n...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK War between Old England and the Bostonians is expected according to all reports we can hear. Various...
NATHANIEL SMITH How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom ...
NATHANIEL SMITH What idea can be formed from the description of these people or what credit can be given to their st...
NATHANIEL SMITH May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH To the best of my knowledge, I do not intend to applaud too much, nor degrade the Country I am in, I...
NATHANIEL SMITH The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause
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