I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.
From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.
In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.
In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by. . . material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own. . . . The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself. . . . It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it.
I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.
When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes. . . for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.