"I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan."

Life, Freedom, Choice, Happiness

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"I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Born, Win, Destiny, Success

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Bliss, Love, People, Unconditional

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."

Authority, Skin

"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."

Change, First

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

Woman, Women, Work, Care, May

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."

People, Day, Future

"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."

Reflection, Memory, Time, Nostalgia

"I could leave-because I could return. I could return-because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and."

Adventure, Choice, Freedom, Exploration

"I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan."

Life, Freedom, Choice, Happiness

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

Woman, Women

"Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out."

Society, Gender, Equality, Learning, Opportunity

"I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves."

Identity, Individual, Expression, Faith