"I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside."

-- Erykah Badu

#Beautiful Quotes #Light Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong,”

Source : Song: Terms of my Surrender, 2014
“The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."”

Source : "This much I know: Davina McCall". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.
“Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.”
“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Source : "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
“When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think â€œI am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.â€ No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, â€œFather, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.â€ He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.”
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.”
“Man builds no structure which outlives a book.”

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