interestingly enough these come from nike slogan campaigns....i found them one day online....

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough, they'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. They will tell you no. And YOU WILL TELL THEM YES"
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"A WOMAN IS OFTEN MEASURED by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-26 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don't ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because every woman know, measurements are only statistics and STATISTICS LIE."
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"Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all,we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you've never tried. Risk it. Enter a triathlon. Write a letter to the editor. Demand a raise. Call winners at the toughest court. Throw away your television. Bicycle across the United States. Try bobsledding. Try anything. Speak out against the designated hitter. Travel to a country where you don't speak the language. Patent something. Call her.You have nothing to lose and everything everything everything to gain"
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"MONUMENTS ARE A HOAX." A conspiracy designed by bureacrats and construction companies to draw you away from the important places. The ones found off the roads, atop mountains, amidst the rivers, and mostly by chance. Marked not by placecards and statues, but by epiphanous moments that give you the sense that NO ONE INCLUDING YOURSELF MAY EVER FIND THIS PLACE AGAIN. These are the places worth seeking out. As you pass by the land-markers putting up their guardrails and snack shops, give you a friendly wave. And walk on to the place they've never been."
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"It starts about the time I walk out my front door. I reach the woods, smell the river, and I just feel myself come to life again. It's like yeah, I'm back."

"...once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves capable of...this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe."
-Audre Lorde
"Sister Outsider"

"The only sound enough motivation for doing anything is joy. All other motivations, such as guilt, compulsion, obligation and duty only lead us to dissatisfaction, tension and resentment. When we are engaged in what truly gives us joy, we lead ourselves inevitably to more and more challenging, powerful work which affects more and more of the world."
-Principle 72
from "At Least a Hundred Principles of Love"
by Nancy Kline & Christopher Spence