"Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace."

-- Studs Terkel

#Believe Quotes #Envy Quotes #People Quotes

“People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.”
“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.”

Source : Nora Raleigh Baskin (2009). “Anything But Typical”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
“Life is all about experiencing the full range of emotions.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.”
“The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.”
“I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.”
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
“Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.”

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