Michael Distefano:
CLASS OF 1974
Everett High SchoolClass of 1974
Everett, MA
Michael's Story
Michael is from Boston, Massachusetts. Michael's schools include Everett High School.
Music Michael likes includes ARTPOP, Sound of Light Choir Atlanta, Leonard Cohen. Books Michael likes include The Five Levels of Attachment by don Miguel Ruiz Jr., Sacred Thinking. Movies Michael likes include To Kill a Mockingbird, New Thought Movie, The Color Purple. TV shows Michael likes include Downton Abbey, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Glee.
One of Michael's favorite quotes is:""There will be a time, not so far from now, that you will look back on this phase of your life and instead of condemning it or beating up on it—instead of blaming or guilting—you will feel appreciation for it. Because you will understand that a renewed desire for life was born out of this time period that will bring you to physical heights that you could not have achieved without the contrast that gave birth to this desire." ~ Abraham
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." ~ Buddha
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~ John Muir
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him." ~ Leo Tolstoy
"Success is not final, and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill...Expand for more
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" ~ Anonymous
"Love of wilderness is more that a hunger for what is always beyond reach. It is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if we only had the eyes to see." ~ Edward Abbey
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." ~ Winston Churchill
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
"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
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." ~ Samuel Johnson
" ... power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." ~ Mohandas Gandhi".
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