"Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

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“I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.”
“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Source : Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.
“The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.”
“Books are like my one and only joy.”
“I believe you should be comfortable in your skin no matter what you go through - emotionally or whatever - as long as youre healthy.”

Source : "'Sister Act' Star Raven-Symone On Broadway, Weight Loss". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.
“And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.”

Source : Kerry Greenwood (2011). “Cocaine Blues”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com
“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devilâ€™s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.”
“Hold on to your vision and make it your reality.”

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