quotes about Self Preservation

“I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

“That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.”

“Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.”

“I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?”

“All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.”

“The family is the school of duties - founded on love.”

Source : FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

“Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.”

“Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.”

“As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha”

“I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.”

Source : "Aden Young discusses SundanceTV's 'Rectify'". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 1, 2014.