"Look Toward the stars but keep your..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
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“The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.”
“We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.”
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
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“I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.”
“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.”
“Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
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“Lift up your eyes uponThis day breaking for you.Give birth againTo the dream.Women, children, men,Take it into the palms of your hands.Mold it into the shape of your mostPrivate need. Sculpt it intoThe image of your most public self.Lift up your heartsEach new hour holds new chancesFor a new beginning.”
“I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody.”
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”