Wake up every morning with a good attitude because everyday that you open your eye's gives you another day to try again.
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
I will never let you fall I'll stand up with you forever I'll be there for you through it all Even if saving you sends me to heaven
I will never give up, just push harder because the thought of quitting if far worse than the temporary pain I'm feeling now.
I looked up, it was the first drop of rain. Tearing through the clouds, screaming as it did. For all this effort, it had to head towards the drain, So I looked up and caught it in my eye instead.
The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.
You don't lose a partner you've been with for 30-odd years and just wake up one day with a smile.
Success is getting through defiance, adversity and difficulties, feeling hopeless and defeated but never giving up until you achieve your goal
I have lived my life growing up with emptiness in hope that I would someday find you. That emptiness is now a broken Heart
Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don't know what the hell they're doing.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
