Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are
motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer
unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

-- Jim Collins, author of "Good to Great"

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the
individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It
is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to
resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side
street.

-- Mark Helprin () American Novelist and Writer

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann von Goethe

One of my favorites.

Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.

-- John Keats

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.

-- A. Neilen

I'm Airlyeth, and I repel technology.

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"What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth."
-Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Does anyone know where this quote is from? Is it from a song, a book, a film? Or is it just something from the Internet?:

"i need to know that you are alive and well somewhere in this world even if it's not by my side"

Thanks! :)

1. Alias: Danielle ( Read more... )

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