"I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain."

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Whitney Houston

#Inspirational Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Pain Quotes

“You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.”
“Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international awareness, the better off we've been at realizing solutions to our own problems.”
“There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love.”
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”

Source : "Escape from Freedom". "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination", Vol 1, No 2, 2006.
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

Source : "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.
“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.”
“When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1891). “Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff”, London : Cassell
“Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.”

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