"there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing."

-- Margaret Mead

#Generations Quotes #Young Quotes #Elders Quotes

“Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful,”
“You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.”
“My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.173, Faber & Faber
“To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.”

Source : "Modern Systems Theory - An Outlook for Coping with Change". "Revue Francaise de Sociologie", (p. 16), October 1969.
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Iâ€™ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders oneâ€™s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person oneâ€™s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that personâ€™s view requires to be fakedâ€¦The man who lies to the world, is the worldâ€™s slave from then onâ€¦There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
“That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.”
“I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

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