“But you didn t get this far by giving up, did you? That s right. You have something called determination . So as long as you hold on, so as long as you do what s in your heart, I believe you can do the right thing.”
“It is not your background that determines how far you can go in life. It is God’s plan, your hard work and determination that matters. Have faith in God. He will turn your life around.”
“Dream with determination.”
“I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I am determined.”
“All of us in combat were inextricably dependent on each other for our very lives. We were not only fighting for our country, we were fighting for each other. • I know that part of what I was fighting for was the freedom we all cherish so dearly, including freedom of speech, but this is different. Having the right to free speech does not mean you have a right to your own facts or your own truth. Having free speech is not a free pass to spew hatred or to abandon civil discourse. • The commitment and sacrifice of military members extends beyond combat. The sacrifices are real and exist twenty-four/seven regardless if we are in peacetime or war. • In some way, we are like Plato’s prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn our heads. We only see shadows on the cave wall. We are oblivious to the larger, more colorful and more desirable world outside of the cave. • I think where religion may go astray is when leaders and followers of a specific religious doctrine or tradition mistake the vehicle of religion for truth itself.”
“If, at first, you do not succeed, call it version 1.0.”
“Yes, that s the worst of it. It s a desperately vexatious thing, that after all one s reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can t calculate on beforehand.”
“I was Lin. I was the Emperor’s daughter. And I would show him that even broken daughters could wield power.”
“Bravery is to acknowledge that we are cowards who have committed ourselves to keeping our cowardice on a very short leash.”
“There is no miracle, only persistence.”