"Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history."

-- Anne Michaels

#Strong Quotes #Children Quotes #Past Quotes

“Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family,”
“I watch a romcom only when my wife drags me”
“Basketball is basketball.”
“You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.”
“The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.”
“beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995”
“When you experience peace of soul, with each breath you are present to the fact that this is a divine moment, a moment to shine like you have never shone before, a moment to hold the whole world in your hands with a gentle thought and a kind heart.”

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