Beverly Jenkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.
-- Beverly Jenkins

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A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.
-- Beverly Jenkins

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Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.
-- Beverly Jenkins

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Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.
-- Beverly Jenkins

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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Beverly Jenkins famous quotes

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