"A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Respect Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Men Quotes

“I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.”
“The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.”
“The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand
“It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The secret is not to act, but to be.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Practice is the battle you must win.”
“I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.”
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”

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