"To please everybody is impossible; were I..." - Quote by George Washington
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
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“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
“Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.”
“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”
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“giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go”
“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”
“In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.”