“I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.”
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“I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.”
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.”
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”
“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”
“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”
“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”
“If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.”
“Thug Life to me is dead.”
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.”
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
“I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.”
“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
“Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.”
“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”
“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.”