"Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Breathing Quotes #Fire Quotes #Dragons Quotes

“Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.”
“I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.”

Source : "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.
“Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me”
“I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.”
“Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door desire follows hope. Rest forever. Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention nor is the earth worth a sigh. Bitterness and boredom is life, nothing else ever, and the world is mud. Quiet now. Despair for the last time. Fate gives us dying as a gift. Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power which rules for the common evil and the infinite vanity of it all.”
“You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.”
“Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.”
“No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.”

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