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The real you focuses on goals that inspire you and doesn’t let “that’s just not me!” stand in the way.

Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead

When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion...time stands still.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

Waking Up at Rembrandt's

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

White Teeth

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.

The Waves

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

Where She Went

Relationships are like water. Sometimes they’re frozen, and sometimes you don’t have the foggiest clue where you stand. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese.

Xazaqazax

I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.

Mike Nichols

I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.

Gilbert Hernandez

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George F. Kennan

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

Jakob Bohme

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

Jonathan Brandis

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

Paula Radcliffe

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best ...

Richard Trumka

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'

Ron Wyden

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

Astrid and Veronika

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

The Moth Diaries

The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.

Making Success Deliberate

Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment.

Grigoris Deoudis