"Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom."

-- Dalai Lama

#Freedom Quotes #Desire Quotes #Matter Quotes

“In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.”
“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.”

Source : "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.
“Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.”
“Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'Â€Â™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'Â€Â™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.”
“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.”
“I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.”
“I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.”
“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”

You may also like:

Billie Holiday
Singer
Dalai Lama
Desmond Tutu
Activist
Gautama Buddha
Founding Figure
Heinrich Harrer
Mountaineer
Mahatma Gandhi
Lawyer
Matthieu Ricard
Monk
Nhat Hanh
Monk
Pierre Boulez
Composer