I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

We are so very ‚umble.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

The earth laughs in flowers.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.