Favorite quotes

"The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds." -Ugandan Proverb

 

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." -Marcus Garvey

 

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

 

"Our wasted days are the days we never laugh." -Sudanese Proverb

 

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other." -Angela Davis

 

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"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else." -Maya Angelou

 

“Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. - Henry Taylor

 

"My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated" - Tupac Shakur

 

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”



Michel de Montaigne....

 

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.” Gerard Way

 

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. -Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 1959)

 

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BC

 

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)