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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
Explore more quotes by Robert Gould Shaw


"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."


"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"


"In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it."
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