"Often I'm told I'm an inspiration to people which I will forever be grateful for. But the reality is that I'm only able to help others because others are helping me. Everyday people who are doing whatever they can to help make a difference are what keeps me going."

-- Lizzie Velasquez

#Inspiration Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.”
“There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.”
“I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.”
“The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesnâ€™t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks itâ€™s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He canâ€™t see right, and heâ€™s haunted by nearly everything. Heâ€™s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. Heâ€™s trying to make do with what heâ€™s done, while he reminds us that weâ€™re all, one way or another, in that position.”
“Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins...”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press
“I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.”
“Quality is pride of workmanship.”
“What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.”

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