"I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person."

-- Barbara Jordan

#Running Quotes #Mills Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Everything I am is because of my mom.”
“No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.”
“One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.”
“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.”

Source : John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.86, Mandeville Press
“Never call a girl fat, even if you're joking.”
“When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.”
“I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.”
“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

Source : Song: Smile

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