"Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard,"

-- Miep Gies

#Real Quotes #Able Quotes

“When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.”
“As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.”

Source : "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.
“Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.”
“I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."”
“I hope to offend every reader.”
“There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.554, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.”
“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.”

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