The moon is too close. I want to go further.

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"I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."

- Shirley MacLaine

Self-awareness

"It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office."

- Shirley MacLaine

Relationships

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it."

- Shirley MacLaine

Relationships

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

- Shirley MacLaine

Inspiration

"I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves."

- Shirley MacLaine

Self-esteem

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition