#Letting Go Quotes #Giving Quotes #Leader Quotes
“Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.”
“We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.”
“Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.”
“Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.”
“Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.”
“Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”
Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor
“To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.”
“It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.”
