"As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it."

-- Wangari Maathai

#Philosophy Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Journey Quotes

“...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361”
“The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.”
“At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.”

Source : Source: tacdc.com.au
“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
“I have a lot of female fans.”
“An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.”
“I think Obama was terribly sexist.”

Source : "Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton's Bid Wane" by Jodi Kantor, www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2008.

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