"Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself"

-- Alice Walker

#Strong Women Quotes #Way Quotes #Fine Quotes

“The Nazi leadersâ€¦.treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored”
“Feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?”

Source : "Obama Unleashes 'Inner Angst' in 4th Q of Presidency". Cecily Strong's remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.truthrevolt.org. April 26, 2015.
“I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.”
“Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.”
“During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.”
“There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.”
“In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.”
“Fasting is truly a secret source of power.”

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