One of my favorite scenes in the very powerful movie, The Shawshank Redemption, takes place towards the end of the movie when Andy and Red are talking outside in an empty courtyard at the prison. And Andy says, in this very poignant moment, “Get busy living or get busy dying!” Red has a certain interpretation […]
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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez book “Love In the Time of Cholera”, the main character is frustrated in trying to give a box of chocolates to a love interest. He tries for months every day, and frustrated at his failure, he hands them to a complete stranger and says, “this is for a love going all […]
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One of my favorite quotations is from Milton Berle who said,” If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” It’s a reminder that if there’s something we really want in life, it requires some outside help from the world, and we don’t do anything about it, usually nothing happens. I believe very strongly that the universe […]
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