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We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says 'Emotionally, physically, mentally - come to the field prepared.' Because if you don't bring that to the field, you're going to get beat.

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.