"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."

-- Michelangelo

#Faith Quotes #Encouragement Quotes #Art Quotes

“A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.”
“For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.”
“Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!”
“This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.”

Source : Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”

Source : Speech by minister Koenders at the presentation of the 2015 Human Rights Tulip, November 12, 2015.
“I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.”
“Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 04, 2013
“Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2017). “The Glass Series Complete Collection: Storm Glass\Sea Glass\Spy Glass”, p.358, MIRA

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