"Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are."

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Angelique Kidjo

#Thinking Quotes #Proud Quotes #Define You Quotes

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
“You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.”
“I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all I really couldnt even think about it.”

Source : "Sundance/SXSW Comeback Kid Gaby Hoffmann On Still Feeling Green Despite Growing Up a Child Star". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2013.
“Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.”
“It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.”
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”

Source : "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, www.theguardian.com. 1961.
“Beneath her cheek, his heart was thumping steadily. Definitely faster than his usual near-hibernation beat. Lifting her head, she flashed him a tight smile. â€œI get to you.â€ â€œAre you kidding? You own me,â€ he said, his voice running over her like silk.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Sep 13, 2013

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