"Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that."

-- Maya Angelou

#Giving Quotes #Resentment Quotes #Burden Quotes

“The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'”
“In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.”

Source : Giorgio Vasari (1993). “Lives of the Artists”, Peter Smith Pub Inc
“You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.”

Source : "Searching for the Window Into Nature's Soul". Smithsonian magazine, February 1997.
“The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.”
“As an artist you very much want to have control over your dialogue and your image and when you become exposed in a way where other people are manipulating your brand or the public perception of you that's where it can be frustrating. It's when you want to tell everyone to shut the f*** up and say "hear it from me, not from them." That's all.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn't the only youngster who believed that!”
“It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.”

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