…you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
– Sonia Sotomayor
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- … a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115 – Sonia Sotomayor
- I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view. – Sonia Sotomayor
- It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted. – Sonia Sotomayor
- [A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. – Sonia Sotomayor
- You know, that’s what you’ve been doing in a way–coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. – Jennifer Niven
- Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don’t aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds. – Tehya Sky
- Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep. – MR Carey
- If we defy the odds and ask, GOD will defy the odds and answer. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
- Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The odds are stacked against you until you realize: You make the odds. – Tehya Sky
- When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within. – John Mark Green
- Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop-”there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. – Christina Westover
- That’s when I realized the chill wasn’t coming from outside-”it was coming from within me. – Amanda Hocking
- Do not give your most cherish dreams.Dreams are scriptures.Dreams are possibilities.Dreams always come true. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. – Haruki Murakami
- Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true. – Richelle E Goodrich
- something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within. – Arthur Miller
- The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. – Erma Bombeck
- Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions. – Yuval Noah Harari
- what’s real within the story is real within the story – Jo Walton
- You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice. – Sonia Rumzi
- Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us. – O Shakoor
- Be true to yourself and don’t live your life according to other people’s dreams and wants. – Ambra Celeste
- A real job can kill a real dream, chase your real dreams – Fabrizio Moreira
- You cannot aspire for greatness and fit in at the same time. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M Scott Peck
- If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out. – Bryant McGill
- It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff. – Richie Norton
- Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. – Rick Riordan
- If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive. – Kristin Armstrong
- This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity… – Eyden I
- This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity. – Eyden I
- Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock. – Milan Kundera