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The most interesting people I know are allergic to boredom

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The most interesting people I know are allergic to boredom
— David Perell (@david_perell) May 22, 2020

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PM @narendramodi announces immediate assistance of Rs 1,000 crore to West Bengal, says he will work shoulder to shoulder to rebuild #CycloneAmphan ravaged State, will give whatever help is required. This is called leadership.

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PM @narendramodi announces immediate assistance of Rs 1,000 crore to West Bengal, says he will work shoulder to shoulder to rebuild #CycloneAmphan ravaged State, will give whatever help is required. This is called leadership.

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PM @narendramodi announces immediate assistance of Rs 1,000 crore to West Bengal, says he will work shoulder to shoulder to rebuild #CycloneAmphan ravaged State, will give whatever help is required. This is called leadership.
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﻿Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin,
Is a great equalizer of the conditions of men." -- Horace Mann, 1848.
At the time of his remarks I couldn't read, I couldn't write.
Any attempt to do so, punishable by death.
For generations we have known of knowledge's infinite power.
Yet somehow, we've never questioned the keeper of the keys --
The guardians of information.

Unfortunately, I've seen more dividing and conquering
In this order of operations -- a heinous miscalculation of reality.
For some, the only difference between a classroom and a plantation is time.
How many times must we be made to feel like quotas --
Like tokens in coined phrases? --
"Diversity. Inclusion"
There are days I feel like one, like only --
A lonely blossom in a briar patch of broken promises.
But I've always been a thorn in the side of injustice.

Disruptive. Talkative. A distraction.
With a passion that transcends the confines of my consciousness --
Beyond your curriculum, beyond your standards.
I stand here, a manifestation of love and pain,
With veins pumping revolution.
I am the strange fruit that grew too ripe for the poplar tree.
I am a DREAM Act, Dream Deferred incarnate.
I am a movement -- an amalgam of memories America would care to forget
My past, alone won't allow me to sit still.
So my body, like the mind
Cannot be contained.

As educators, rather than raising your voices
Over the rustling of our chains,
Take them off. Un-cuff us.
Unencumbered by the lumbering weight
Of poverty and privilege,
Policy and ignorance.

I was in the 7th grade, when Ms. Parker told me,
"Donovan, we can put your excess energy to good use!"
And she introduced me to the sound of my own voice.
She gave me a stage. A platform.
She told me that our stories are ladders
That make it easier for us to touch the stars.
So climb and grab them.
Keep climbing. Grab them.
Spill your emotions in the big dipper and pour out your soul.
Light up the world with your luminous allure.

To educate requires Galileo-like patience.
Today, when I look my students in the eyes, all I see are constellations.
If you take the time to connect the dots,
You can plot the true shape of their genius --
Shining in their darkest hour.

I look each of my students in the eyes,
And see the same light that aligned Orion's Belt
And the pyramids of Giza.
I see the same twinkle
That guided Harriet to freedom.
I see them. Beneath their masks and mischief,
Exists an authentic frustration;
An enslavement to your standardized assessments.

At the core, none of us were meant to be common.
We were born to be comets,
Darting across space and time --
Leaving our mark as we crash into everything.
A crater is a reminder that something amazing happened here -=
An indelible impact that shook up the world.
Are we not astronomers -- looking for the next shooting star?
I teach in hopes of turning content, into rocket ships --
Tribulations into telescopes,
So a child can see their potential from right where they stand.
An injustice is telling them they are stars
Without acknowledging night that surrounds them.
Injustice is telling them education is the key
While you continue to change the locks.

Education is no equalizer --
Rather, it is the sleep that precedes the American Dream.
So wake up -- wake up! Lift your voices
Until you've patched every hole in a child's broken sky.
Wake up every child so they know of their celestial potential.
I've been a Black hole in the classroom for far too long;
Absorbing everything, without allowing my light escape.
But those days are done. I belong among the stars.
And so do you. And so do they.
Together, we can inspire galaxies of greatness
For generations to come.
No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning.
Lift off.

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First Big Pharma fled the field, and now start-ups are going belly up, threatening to stifle the development of new drugs.

Dr. Ryan Cirz, a microbiologist and a co-founder of Achaogen, a company whose drug, Zemdri, showed promise in treating U.T.I.s. Credit... Brian L. Frank for The New York Times

At a time when germs are growing more resistant to common antibiotics, many companies that are developing new versions of the drugs are hemorrhaging money and going out of business, gravely undermining efforts to contain the spread of deadly, drug-resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic start-ups like Achaogen and Aradigm have gone belly up in recent months, pharmaceutical behemoths like Novartis and Allergan have abandoned the sector and many of the remaining American antibiotic companies are teetering toward insolvency. One of the biggest developers of antibiotics, Melinta Therapeutics, recently warned regulators it was running out of cash.

Experts say the grim financial outlook for the few companies still committed to antibiotic research is driving away investors and threatening to strangle the development of new lifesaving drugs at a time when they are urgently needed.

"This is a crisis that should alarm everyone," said Dr. Helen Boucher, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center and a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

The problem is straightforward: The companies that have invested billions to develop the drugs have not found a way to make money selling them. Most antibiotics are prescribed for just days or weeks - unlike medicines for chronic conditions like diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis that have been blockbusters - and many hospitals have been unwilling to pay high prices for the new therapies. Political gridlock in Congress has thwarted legislative efforts to address the problem.

The challenges facing antibiotic makers come at time when many of the drugs designed to vanquish infections are becoming ineffective against bacteria and fungi, as overuse of the decades-old drugs has spurred them to develop defenses against the medicines.

Drug-resistant infections now kill 35,000 people in the United States each year and sicken 2.8 million, according a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last month. Without new therapies, the United Nations says the global death toll could soar to 10 million by 2050.

[ Read our other stories in our series on drug resistance, Deadly Germs, Lost Cures.]

The newest antibiotics have proved effective at tackling some of the most stubborn and deadly germs, including anthrax, bacterial pneumonia, E. coli and multidrug-resistant skin infections.

The experience of the biotech company Achaogen, is a case in point. It spent 15 years and a billion dollars to win Food and Drug Administration approval for Zemdri, a drug for hard-to-treat urinary tract infections. In July, the World Health Organization added Zemdri to its list of essential new medicines.

By then, however, there was no one left at Achaogen to celebrate.

This past spring, with its stock price hovering near zero and executives unable to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to market the drug and do additional clinical studies, the company sold off lab equipment and fired its remaining scientists. In April, the company declared bankruptcy.

Public health experts say the crisis calls for government intervention. Among the ideas that have wide backing are increased reimbursements for new antibiotics, federal funding to stockpiledrugs effective against resistant germs and financial incentives that would offer much needed aid to start-ups and lure back the pharmaceutical giants. Despite bipartisan support, legislation aimed at addressing the problem has languished in Congress.

"If this doesn't get fixed in the next six to 12 months, the last of the Mohicans will go broke and investors won't return to the market for another decade or two," said Chen Yu, a health care venture capitalist who has invested in the field.

The industry faces another challenge: After years of being bombarded with warnings against profligate use of antibiotics, doctors have become reluctant to prescribe the newest medications, limiting the ability of companies to recoup the investment spent to discover the compounds and win regulatory approval. And in their drive to save money, many hospital pharmacies will dispense cheaper generics even when a newer drug is far superior.

"You'd never tell a cancer patient 'Why don't you try a 1950s drug first and if doesn't work, we'll move on to one from the 1980s," said Kevin Outterson, the executive director of CARB-X, a government-funded nonprofit that provides grants to companies working on antimicrobial resistance. "We do this with antibiotics and it's really having an adverse effect on patients and the marketplace."

Many of the new drugs are not cheap, at least when compared to older generics that can cost a few dollars a pill. A typical course of Xerava, a newly approved antibiotic that targets multi-drug resistant infections, can cost as much as $2,000.

"Unlike expensive new cancer drugs that extend survival by three-to-six months, antibiotics like ours truly save a patient's life," said Larry Edwards, chief executive of the company that makes Xerva, Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals. "It's frustrating."

Tetraphase, based in Watertown, Mass., has struggled to get hospitals to embrace Xerava, which took more than a decade to discover and bring to market, even though the drug can vanquish resistant germs like MRSA and CRE, a resistant bacteria that kills 13,000 people a year.

Tetraphase's stock price has been hovering around $2, down from nearly $40 a year ago. To trim costs, Mr. Edwards recently shuttered the company's labs, laid off some 40 scientists and scuttled plans to move forward on three other promising antibiotics.

For Melinta Therapeutics based in Morristown, N.J., the future is even grimmer. Last month, the company's stock price dropped 45 percent after executives issued a warning about the company's long-term prospects. Melinta makes four antibiotics, including Baxdela, which recently received F.D.A. approval to treat the kind of drug-resistant pneumonia that often kills hospitalized patients. Jennifer Sanfilippo, Melinta's interim chief executive, said she was hoping a sale or merger would buy the company more time to raise awareness about the antibiotics' value among hospital pharmacists and increase sales.

"These drugs are my babies, and they are so urgently needed," she said.

Coming up with new compounds is no easy feat. Only two new classes of antibiotics have been introduced in the last 20 years - most new drugs are variations on existing ones - and the diminishing financial returns have driven most companies from the market. In the 1980s, there were 18 major pharmaceutical companies developing new antibiotics; today there are three.

"The science is hard, really hard," said Dr. David Shlaes, a former vice president at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and a board member of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization. "And reducing the number of people who work on it by abandoning antibiotic R & D is not going to get us anywhere."

A new antibiotic can cost $2.6 billion to develop, he said, and the biggest part of that cost are the failures along the way.

Some of the sector's biggest players have coalesced around a raft of interventions and incentives that would treat antibiotics as a global good. They include extending the exclusivity for new antibiotics to give companies more time to earn back their investments and creating a program to buy and store critical antibiotics much the way the federal government stockpiles emergency medication for possible pandemics or bioterror threats like anthrax and smallpox.

The DISARM Act, a bill introduced in Congress earlier this year, would direct Medicare to reimburse hospitals for new and critically important antibiotics. The bill has bipartisan support but has yet to advance.

One of its sponsors, Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, said some of the reluctance to push it forward stemmed from the political sensitivity over soaring prescription drug prices. "There is some institutional resistance to any legislation that provides financial incentives to drug companies," he said.

Washington has not entirely been sitting on its hands. Over the past decade, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, a federal effort to counter chemical, nuclear and other public health threats, has invested a billion dollars in companies developing promising antimicrobial drugs and diagnostics that can help address antibiotic resistance.

"If we don't have drugs to combat these multi-drug resistant organisms, then we're not doing our job to keep Americans safe," Rick A. Bright, the director of the agency, said.

Dr. Bright has had a firsthand experience with the problem. Two years ago, his thumb became infected after he nicked it while gardening in his backyard. The antibiotic he was prescribed had no effect, nor did six others he was given at the hospital. It turned out he had MRSA.

The infection spread, and doctors scheduled surgery to amputate the thumb. His doctor prescribed one last antibiotic but only after complaining about its cost and warning that Dr. Bright's insurance might not cover it. Within hours, the infection began to improve and the amputation was canceled.

"If I had gotten the right drug on Day 1, I would have never had to go to the emergency room," he said.

Achaogen and its 300 employees had held out hope for government intervention, especially given that the company had received $124 million from BARDA to develop Zemdri.

As recently as two years ago, the company had a market capitalization of more than $1 billion and Zemdri was so promising that it became the first antibiotic the F.D.A. designated as a breakthrough therapy, expediting the approval process.

Dr. Ryan Cirz, one of Achaogen's founders and the vice president of research, recalled the days when venture capitalists took a shine to the company and investors snapped up its stock. "It wasn't hype," Dr. Cirz, a microbiologist, said. "This was about saving lives."

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In June, investors at the bankruptcy sale bought out the company's lab equipment and the rights to Zemdri for a pittance: $16 million. (The buyer, generics drug maker Cipla USA, has continued to manufacture the drug.) Many of Achaogen's scientists have since found research jobs in more lucrative fields like oncology.

Dr. Cirz lost his life savings, but he said he had bigger concerns. Without effective antibiotics, many common medical procedures could one day become life-threatening.

"This is a problem that can be solved, it's not that complicated," he said. "We can deal with the problem now, or we can just sit here and wait until greater numbers of people start dying. That would be a tragedy."
Matt Richtel contributed reporting.

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Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt

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First Big Pharma fled the field, and now start-ups are going belly up, threatening to stifle the development of new drugs. At a time when germs are growing more resistant to common antibiotics, many companies that are developing new versions of the drugs are hemorrhaging money and going out of business, gravely undermining efforts to contain the spread of deadly, drug-resistant bacteria.

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Audio File: National anthem of India

India, country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. India is made up of 28 states and eight union territories, and its national capital is New Delhi, built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India's administrative centre. Its government is a constitutional republic that represents a highly diverse population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups and hundreds of languages. India became the world's most populous country in 2023, according to estimates by the United Nations.

It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture-the Indus civilization-dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 bce. From that period on, India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism, the roots of which can largely be traced to the Indus civilization. Other religions, notably Buddhism and Jainism, originated in India-though their presence there is now quite small-and throughout the centuries residents of the subcontinent developed a rich intellectual life in such fields as mathematics, astronomy, architecture, literature, music, and the fine arts.

Throughout its history, India was intermittently disturbed by incursions from beyond its northern mountain wall. Especially important was the coming of Islam, brought from the northwest by Arab, Turkish, Persian, and other raiders beginning early in the 8th century ce. Eventually, some of those raiders stayed; by the 13th century much of the subcontinent was under Muslim rule, and the number of Muslims steadily increased. Only after the arrival of the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama in 1498 and the subsequent establishment of European maritime supremacy in the region did India become exposed to major external influences arriving by sea, a process that culminated in the decline of the ruling Muslim elite and absorption of the subcontinent within the British Empire.

Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, effected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. When British rule came to an end on August 14-15, 1947, celebrated annually as Independence Day, the subcontinent was partitioned along religious lines into two separate countries-India, with a majority of Hindus, and Pakistan, with a majority of Muslims; the eastern portion of Pakistan later split off to form Bangladesh. Many British institutions stayed in place (such as the parliamentary system of government); English continued to be a widely used lingua franca; and India remained within the Commonwealth. Hindi became the official language (and a number of other local languages achieved official status), while a vibrant English-language intelligentsia thrived.

India remains one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world. Apart from its many religions and sects, India is home to innumerable castes and tribes, as well as to more than a dozen major and hundreds of minor linguistic groups from several language families unrelated to one another. Religious minorities, including Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains, still account for a significant proportion of the population. Earnest attempts have been made to instill a spirit of nationhood in so varied a population, but tensions between neighbouring groups have remained and at times have resulted in outbreaks of violence. Yet social legislation has done much to alleviate the disabilities previously suffered by formerly " untouchable" castes, tribal populations, women, and other traditionally disadvantaged segments of society. At independence, India was blessed with several leaders of world stature, most notably Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, who were able to galvanize the masses at home and bring prestige to India abroad. The country has played an increasing role in global affairs.

Contemporary India's increasing physical prosperity and cultural dynamism-despite continued domestic challenges and economic inequality-are seen in its well-developed infrastructure and a highly diversified industrial base, in its pool of scientific and engineering personnel (one of the largest in the world), in the pace of its agricultural expansion, and in its rich and vibrant cultural exports of music, literature, and cinema. Though the country's population remains largely rural, India has three of the most populous and cosmopolitan cities in the world- Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta), and Delhi. Three other Indian cities- Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chennai (Madras), and Hyderabad -are among the world's fastest-growing high-technology centres, and most of the world's major information technology and software companies now have offices in India.

The history section of the articles Pakistan and Bangladesh discuss those countries since their creation.

Land

India's frontier, which is roughly one-third coastline, abuts six countries. It is bounded to the northwest by Pakistan, to the north by Nepal, China, and Bhutan; and to the east by Myanmar (Burma). Bangladesh to the east is surrounded by India to the north, east, and west. The island country of Sri Lanka is situated some 40 miles (65 km) off the southeast coast of India across the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar.

The land of India-together with Bangladesh and most of Pakistan-forms a well-defined subcontinent, set off from the rest of Asia by the imposing northern mountain rampart of the Himalayas and by adjoining mountain ranges to the west and east. In area, India ranks as the seventh largest country in the world.

Much of India's territory lies within a large peninsula, surrounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east; Cape Comorin, the southernmost point of the Indian mainland, marks the dividing line between those two bodies of water. India has two union territories composed entirely of islands: Lakshadweep, in the Arabian Sea, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which lie between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

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India | History, Map, Population, Economy, & Facts

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The ex gratia amount of Rs 10 lakh each announced by the Karnataka government to the family of two people killed in the police firing during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in Mangaluru has been withdrawn, chief minister B S Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.

Soon after the incident which occurred on December 19, the state government had announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of those killed in the firing.

"We have not decided yet to give the exgratia to the family members of those killed in the police firing because giving criminals exgratia is an unpardonable crime in itself. Earlier, the government had decided to give them compensation, but now we have withdrawn it," Yediyurappa told reporters after a marathon meeting with the senior officials of the Dakshina Kannada district.

The chief minister returned from Kerala on Tuesday night and held a series of meetings with the officials in the night as well as in the morning.

He said he has directed the police to identify the hooligans who rioted on December 19, book cases against them and initiate stringent action.

"It is now clear that it (Mangaluru riot) was a conspiracy. People tried to barge into the armoury of the police station. We are not going to spare anybody," Yediyurappa said.

Noting that the violence was a meticulous conspiracy, the chief minister said stones hurled at police were brought in an autorickshaw-trolley and dumped.

The government would ascertain the background of those involved in arson and violence and arrest all those involved in the crime, he added.

Slamming the opposition for making 'baseless' charges against his government, Yediyurappa said, "When brain does not function properly the opposition members talk like that."

"Those poor people don't have any other issue to raise, so they give such irresponsible statements. Evidences clearly show their (rioters) involvement in the arson and loot," Yediyurappa said in reply to a query that the opposition was blaming him and home minister Basavaraj Bommai for the police firing.

The chief minister faced the ire of people at Kannur in Kerala when his convoy was attacked by a group of people protesting the detention of journalists from the state, while covering the violence during anti-CAA stir in Mangaluru.

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K'taka: Ex gratia to kin of CAA stir victims put on hold

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The ex gratia amount of Rs 10 lakh each announced by the Karnataka government to the family of two people killed in the police firing during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in Mangaluru has been withdrawn, chief minister B S Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." --Thomas A. Edison
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." --Robert Hughes
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" --Robert Schuller
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." --Abraham Lincoln
"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." --John Maxwell
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that's where you will find success." --Thomas J. Watson
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." --Albert Einstein
"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen." --Dax Shepard
"My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'" --George Carlin
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." --James Dean
"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness." --Frank Tyger
"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want." --Alan Cohen
"Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever." --Peter Hagerty
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." --Maya Angelou
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." --David Allen
"We forge the chains we wear in life." --Charles Dickens
"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." --Lao Tzu
"Everything is a gift of the universe--even joy, anger, jealousy, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment." --Ken Keyes Jr.
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." --Richard Bach
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." --Andrew Carnegie
"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." --Chinese proverb
"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book, and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." --Fernandez de Andrada
"You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy." --Alan Cohen
"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them." --Bernard M. Baruch
"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression, and respect." --Alain de Botton
"If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the problem." --Stephen Covey
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." --Denis Waitley
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." --Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life." --Germaine Greer
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." --Greg Anderson
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." --Buddha
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be." --Anne Frank
"In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom." --Buddha
"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." --Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
"You never regret being kind." --Nicole Shepherd
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." --Paul Boese
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." --Buddha
"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." --Helen Keller
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving." --Dan Millman
"The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive." --Rachel England
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." --Bernard Meltzer
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." --Charles Dickens
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." --Carl Jung
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." --Marcus Aurelius
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." --Dalai Lama
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." --Helen Keller
"Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have." --Unknown
"True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self." --Joseph Addison
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." --Ayn Rand
"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." --William Adams
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." --Dale Carnegie
"We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future." --Lester Levinson
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill
"Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness bring money." --Sam Rosen
"Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him or her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing ... just expressed differently." --Robert McPhillips
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl Jung
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." --Reinhold Niebuhr
"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have." --Abraham Lincoln
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." --Melody Beattie
"There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them." --Wayne Dyer
"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end--it's not the final curtain--it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing." --Ralph Lauren
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." --Deepak Chopra
"Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?" --Bill Walton
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." --Archibald MacLeish
"Once you do something you love, you never have to work again." --Willie Hill
"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it." --Shakti Gawain
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." --Margaret Chase Smith
"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." --Nathaniel Branden
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." --Soren Kierkegaard
"Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got." --Sue Knight
"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover." --Shakti Gawain
"Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them." --Marcus Aurelius
"Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it." --J. Petit Senn
"To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek." --Alan Cohen
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." --John Milton
"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy." --Albert Clarke
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." --Betty Smith
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." --Oprah Winfrey
"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." --Shari R. Barr
"View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?" --Victor Frankl
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs--even though checkered by failure--than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time ... serenity, that nothing is." --Thomas Szasz
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." --William Arthur Ward
"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." --Adlai E. Stevenson II
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." --Robert Louis Stevenson
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things." --Ronald Reagan
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women." Groucho Marx
"Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it." --Tina Fey
"Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own." --Beth Revis
"Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." --George S. Patton Jr.
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." --Lao Tzu
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." --John F. Kennedy
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." --Peter F. Drucker
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." --Woodrow Wilson
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." --Albert Schweitzer
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." --John C. Maxwell
"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones." --Brandon Sanderson
"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." --John C. Maxwell
"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." --Steve Jobs
"A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." --Nelson Mandela
"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off." --Colin Powell
"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas." --Margaret Thatcher
"A leader is a dealer in hope." --Napoleon
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." --Theodore Roosevelt
"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers." --Tupac Shakur
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see." --Henry David Thoreau
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." --Robert E. Lee
"The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." --Colin Powell
"Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?'" --Margaret Thatcher
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." --Rosalynn Carter
"There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust." --Klaus Balkenhol
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." --Nancy D. Solomon
"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." --Max De Pree
"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." --Whoopi Goldberg
"A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own." --Beth Revis
"Always remember, son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men, the least government is the best government." --Ralph Moody
"If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing." --Brad Szollose
"'Give as few orders as possible,' his father had told him once long ago. 'Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.'" --Frank Herbert (from Dune)
"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." --Tony Blair
"Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through." --Jarod Kintz
"In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it." --Seth Godin
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." --Patrick Lencioni
"No guts, no story." --Chris Brady
"Leadership is an action, not a position." --Donald McGannon
"Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way." --Ronald Reagan
"I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody." --Herbert Bayard Swope
"Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are." --Thomas John Carlisle
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind but not weak; be bold but not a bully; be humble but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor but without folly." --Jim Rohn
"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." --J.P. Morgan
"If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything." --Tom Rath
"Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar." --Orrin Woodward
"Don't blow off another's candle, for it won't make yours shine brighter." --Jaachynma N.E. Agu
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." --Peter F. Drucker
"When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow." --Jerry Porras
"A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them." --M.D. Arnold
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." --Martin Luther King Jr.
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." --Father Theodore M. Hesburgh
"It is absolutely necessary ... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders." --George Washington
"When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter." --Winston Churchill
"A leader takes people where they would never go on their own." --Hans Finzel
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." --Ken Kesey
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." --Max Lucado
"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position." --Brian Tracy
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." --Ralph Nader
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." --Publilius Syrus
"A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better." --Steve Jobs
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." --John Maxwell
"To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way." --Pat Riley
"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." --John Maxwell
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." --George Patton
"Earn your leadership every day." --Michael Jordan
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." --William Arthur Ward
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." --G.K. Chesterton
"'Enough' is a feast." --Buddhist proverb
"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." --Robert Quillen
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." --Robert Brault
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them." --John F. Kennedy
"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." --Eckhart Tolle
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." --Frank A. Clark
"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." --Gerald Good
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity ... it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." --Melody Beattie
"The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it." --Michael Josephson
"Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." --Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement." --Charles Schwab
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." --Epictetus
"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." --Albert Schweitzer
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." --William James
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." --Oprah Winfrey
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." --Buddha
"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone." --Gertrude Stein
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts." --Henri Frederic Amiel
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment." --Naomi Williams
"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." --John Wooden
"No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude." --Alfred North Whitehead
"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude." --A.A. Milne
"Forget yesterday--it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow--you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift--today." --Steve Maraboli
"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." --Neal A. Maxwell
"In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." --John E. Southard
"I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I'm going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice." --Mike Ericksen
"Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it." --Stephen Richards
"Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices." --Robert Braathe
"They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself." --Tom Perrotta
"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else." --Raheel Farooq
"Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it." --Tom Hopkins
"In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day--or to celebrate each special day." --Rasheed Ogunlaru
"This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before." --Maya Angelou
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you." --William Jennings Bryan
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." --Vincent van Gogh
"Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it." --Bruce Lee
"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful." --Mark Victor Hansen
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better." --Barrie Davenport
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." e. e. cummings
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." Golda Meir
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." --Arthur Ashe
"It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures." --Oprah Winfrey
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration--because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ... " --James Cameron
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." --Elisabeth K��bler-Ross
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." --Peter T. Mcintyre
"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." --Richard Bach
"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." --Thomas Alva Edison
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." --Andre Dubus
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" --Marianne Williamson
"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." --Bren�� Brown
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." --Dr. Benjamin Spock
"Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them." --T. Harv Eker
"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it." --Dr. Robert Anthony
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." --Sir Edmund Hillary
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." --Oscar Wilde
"You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." --Buddha
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." --Dale Carnegie
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." --Helen Keller
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." --Thomas Jefferson
"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have." --Brian Tracy
"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think." --T. Harv Eker
"Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out." --Alan Cohen
"To anyone that ever told you you're no good ... They're no better." --Hayley Williams
"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." --Christopher Robin
"You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own." --Tim Gunn
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." --J.M. Barrie
"It's a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you're OK." --Michael Pitt
"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done." --Robert Downey Jr.
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." --Rumi
"When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't." --Jodi Picoult
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." --Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it." --Bryce Courtenay
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." --Florence Nightingale
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity." --Amelia Earhart
"Do it or not. There is no try." --Yoda
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." --Lao Tzu
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." --Alice Walker
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." --John Lennon
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." --Woody Allen
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliot
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." --Henry Ford
"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." --Unknown
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." --Joshua Marine
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." --Booker T. Washington
"Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." --Jimmy Spithill
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." --Steve Jobs
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." --Stephen Covey
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." --Mark Twain
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." --Aristotle
"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." --George Addair
"Fall seven times and stand up eight." --Japanese proverb
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." --Robert Frost
"The extra mile is a vast, unpopulated wasteland." (OK, that one's mine)
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." --Bob Dylan
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." --Albert Einstein
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." --Chinese proverb
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." --Maya Angelou
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." --Wayne Gretzky
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." --Farrah Gray
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." --Confucius
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Tony Robbins
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." --Beverly Sills
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." --Booker T. Washington
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." --Ayn Rand
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." --Steve Jobs

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Mr. McCain's surgeons are not giving interviews, and his communications director, Julie Tarallo, said no further information was available.

Aides to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said it was unclear how long the delay would last.

The timing of the Senate vote is crucial. The more it is delayed, the more likely the bill is to fail, supporters and opponents say. Moreover, the Senate schedule will soon be packed with other legislation, like an increase in the statutory limit on federal borrowing and spending bills for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. In addition, Republicans are eager to cut taxes and simplify the tax code.

The Senate has struggled to pass a health care bill, delaying a vote on a previous version of the legislation in June.

Several Republican senators have expressed reservations or outright opposition to the new version as well, and Republicans need Mr. McCain's vote to have any chance of passing it.

The bill, to repeal and replace major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, is a top priority for President Trump and Republicans in the House, which passed its own repeal bill in early May.

Mr. Cornyn acknowledged that "there's uncertainty about what the final outcome will be." Asked what would happen if the bill did not pass, he said: "I assume we'll keep trying. But at some point, if Democrats won't participate in the process, then we're going to have to come up with a different plan."

Critics of the Senate's health care bill, taking advantage of the delay, said Sunday that Republican leaders needed to rework the legislation in fundamental ways. Given the additional time, they said, Senate committees should hold hearings to solicit opinions from the public and from experts on health care and insurance.

"We should not be making fundamental changes in a vital safety net program that's been on the books for 50 years, the Medicaid program, without having a single hearing to evaluate what the consequences are going to be," Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Roughly 20 million people have gained coverage through the Affordable Care Act, a pillar of President Barack Obama's legacy. But Mr. Cornyn described the law on Sunday as a failed "exercise in central planning and command and control."

The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday, but Mr. Trump has been urging lawmakers to pass the bill, saying he is waiting with pen in hand.

On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence assured skeptical governors that "the Senate health care bill strengthens and secures Medicaid for the neediest in our society," putting the program, which serves more than 70 million low-income people, on "a path to long-term sustainability."

But Ms. Collins said: "I would respectfully disagree with the vice president's analysis. This bill would impose fundamental, sweeping changes in the Medicaid program, and those include very deep cuts. That would affect some of the most vulnerable people in our society, including disabled children, poor seniors. It would affect our rural hospitals and our nursing homes. And they would have a very difficult time even staying in existence."

She added, "There are about eight to 10 Republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill."

Republicans hold 52 Senate seats, and all Democratic senators oppose the bill. Ms. Collins and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, have said they will vote against even starting the debate, meaning all other Republican senators need to vote for the legislation if it is to pass.

Mr. Paul's reasons for opposing the bill are very different from Ms. Collins's; he says it retains too much of the Affordable Care Act. And he predicted that support for the legislation would erode because of the delay prompted by Mr. McCain's absence.

"The longer the bill's out there, the more conservative Republicans are going to discover that it's not repeal," Mr. Paul said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "And the more that everybody's going to discover that it keeps the fundamental flaw of Obamacare. It keeps the insurance mandates that cause the prices to rise, which chase young, healthy people out of the marketplace and leads to what people call adverse selection, where you have a sicker and sicker insurance pool and the premiums keep rising through the roof."

Voters "elected us to repeal Obamacare," Mr. Paul added. But with the bill drafted by Mr. McConnell, the senior senator from his home state, he said, "we're going to keep most of the taxes, keep the regs, keep the subsidies and create a giant bailout superfund for the insurance companies."

The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, said Sunday that he did not think delaying the vote would change the outcome.

"Time is not the problem in the present health care bill," Mr. Schumer said. "The problem is the substance. It slashes Medicaid, which has become something that helps middle-class New Yorkers - millions of them, literally - and millions of Americans."

The delay gives critics of the repeal bill more time to investigate numbers being used by the Trump administration to defend it.

The administration has been telling Congress and governors that the bill includes plenty of money to provide private insurance for people who would lose Medicaid coverage. But those estimates are based on particular assumptions chosen by administration officials. Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, a Republican, and others have questioned the validity of those assumptions.

The assumptions, made by political appointees in the Trump administration, specify how states would use money provided by the bill and how many people losing Medicaid would buy private insurance.

In a report on the House bill last month, the office of the actuary at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said most of the people who lost Medicaid coverage would "ultimately be uninsured, though a small fraction would choose to purchase individual insurance."

Millions of people have gained coverage in the 31 states that chose to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and many of them are projected to lose that coverage under the Senate and House bills, which would roll back the expansion of Medicaid.

When Congress convened in January, Republicans appeared to be on course to repeal the Affordable Care Act within a month or two, but their project met with growing resistance as lawmakers, consumers, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies scrutinized the proposals. Mr. McConnell delayed a vote scheduled for the week before the Fourth of July. Then, with no visible progress toward agreement, he delayed the Senate's scheduled August recess by two weeks so senators could keep working.

Trump administration officials will use the extra time provided by the latest delay to try to persuade undecided Republican senators to vote for the bill. They will also try to raise doubts about the work of the Congressional Budget Office, which estimated that an earlier version of Mr. McConnell's bill could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 22 million by 2026, compared with current law.

The nonpartisan budget office had been expected to issue a report on the latest draft of the bill on Monday, but it now plans to take more time.

Lawmakers are eager to see what the office says about a proposal added to the bill last week in a bid for support from the most conservative Republican senators. Under the proposal, insurers could offer cheaper, less comprehensive health plans if they also offered three standard plans with all the benefits required by the Affordable Care Act.

The author of the proposal, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said it would give consumers "the freedom to choose among more affordable plans" that were "free from Obamacare's insurance regulations."

The skimpier plans would cover less and presumably cost less, and insurers said they would also attract healthier people.

"These junk insurance plans could charge people more or simply deny them coverage based on pre-existing conditions," said Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington.

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Mr. McCain's surgeons are not giving interviews, and his communications director, Julie Tarallo, said no further information was available. Aides to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said it was unclear how long the delay would last. The timing of the Senate vote is crucial.