I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
I know it’s technically goodwill to all men, but in my mind, I drop the men because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad ist.Goodwill shouldn’t be just for men. It should also apply...
(a.) Pertaining to inspiration.
I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.
I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.
Leadership, he was discovering, had its ups and downs—kind of like the bowsprit on a swelling sea.
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hop...
Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'g...
One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has tu...
Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chao...
Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential wi...
Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached them, very lightly, to the belt. So on a summer’s d...
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