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Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#becoming #close #door #i #kids

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#girlfriend #i #i was raised #life #mother

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#because #champion #defer #i #i am

As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#care #caught #else #everyone #forget

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#love #sacrifice #you

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#away #demands #feat #life #only

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#command #duty #gives #humiliated #imposes

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#answers #conception #death #decides #last