"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."

Life, Complaining, Complaints

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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

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"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

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

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"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

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"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."

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"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."

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"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible."

Writing, Right

"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."

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"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

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"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."

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"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."

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"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."

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