It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGSSatisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
C. S. LEWIS -
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
BAYARD RUSTIN -
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
JOHN ORTBERG -
Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
RASHEED OGUNLARU -
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
PRINCE CHARLES -
I don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘moderate Islam.’ I think it’s better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI -
The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
TIM COOK -
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It’s like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don’t really feel that part until I’m into whatever I’m going to wear.
ELTON JOHN -
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE -
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That’s why I love vegetables, you know what they’re about!
TOM JONES -
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
NICK SABAN -
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
BEAR GRYLLS -
In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct – and more interesting than the Closed.
BENT LARSEN -
Your lips were soft and tender, warm like september. Every moment spent with you made me feel wild and brand new.
Z. ELLIOTT -
Jackie Chan, I’ve known him, he’s a great guy. I know he’s very watchable and fun. He’s perfect, actually.
DOLPH LUNDGREN -
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR -
My forgiving you doesn’t make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.
ABBI GLINES -
My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is teaching (so I can afford to write), travel to be planned and executed.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL -
The most beautiful things in life are the simplest: people, conversation, connection, fresh air, & flowers.
ELEZABETH SYMOND -
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN -
Your trauma doesn’t build character, it builds a wall around you.
BURIED CAESAR -
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT -
When you can’t get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.
NICK VUJICIC