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The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you. Twinkle Khanna

Prove, Delicate, Part

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. Bernard Beckett

Curiosity, Optimism

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it. Jerry Hall

Worry, Think, Over

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. Joan Jett

Strong, Quantum Physics

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected. Sylvester Stallone

Strong, Think, Side

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time. Carice van Houten

Strong, Play, Very

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk

Die, Perfect, Intangible

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. Jenna Morasca

See, How, Delicate

We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. Barack Obama

Long, Some, Our

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. Sam Shepard

Away, Allow, Very

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. Steven Pinker

Purpose, Gift, Precious

Everyone's more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing's a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile. Alain de Botton

Think, I Think, Everyone

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. Helen Clark

Been, Poor Countries

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day. Julia Roberts

Think, Bed, I Think

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece. Sylvia Kristel

Me, Self, Self Confidence

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. Madeleine Albright

Government, Most, Form

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got. Tim Cook

Tomorrow, Give, Guaranteed

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile. Carole Bouquet

Pain, Through, Very

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile. Russel Honore

Bad, More, Poor People

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans. Jamais Cascio

Weak, Northern, Katrina

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Richard P. Feynman

Learn, Other, Some

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust

Wealth, Fleeting, Eternal

No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?'' Hope Jahren

Matter, Temporary, Here

I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong. Bipasha Basu

Strong, Deep, Private

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive. Madeleine M. Kunin

Alive, Other, Best Way

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark. Aurora

Beautiful, Everybody, Split

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