"When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy."

-- Carter Burwell

#Hurt Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Helping Quotes

“It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.”

Source : "Zoe Saldana On Why She Quit Ballet As A Teen: ‘I Was Dying Inside’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.
“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.”
“Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.”
“The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.”

Source : Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.”
“The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.”
“I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.”
“If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.”

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