"I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do."

-- Brandy Norwood

#Sacrifice Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.”

Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “Thornyhold”, p.84, Hachette UK
“When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.”
“She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”
“Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.”
“When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.”
“My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read your mind. That's where a friend or an editor comes in. A great editor will tell you straight when you've drifted into the latter territory.”
“It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life, but more and more as an easy going guide to future enjoyment, to a universal happiness and an indiscriminate salvation.”

Source : Frederic Dan Huntington (1877). “Christ in the Christian Year and in the Life of Man: Sermons for Laymen's Reading (Advent to Trinity)”
“I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.”

You may also like:

Aaliyah
Dancer
Beyonce Knowles
Recording Artist
Chris Brown
Recording Artist
Kelly Rowland
Singer
Mary J. Blige
Singer-songwriter
Monica Denise Brown
Singer
Ray J
Singer-songwriter
Toni Braxton
Singer-songwriter
Whitney Houston
Musical Artist