"When I was with Elvis, I used to remind myself there's Elvis on the marquee and then there's the living, breathing Elvis."

-- Linda D. Thompson

#Breathing Quotes #Used Quotes #Marquee Quotes

“And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.”
“Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.”
“I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.”
“Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.”
“In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it”
“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

Source : Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.27, Penguin

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