"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.”
“Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”

Source : Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.24, e-artnow
“On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.”

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“The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom by herself, lie on her side or back, squat or kneel, or anything she finds comfortable, without fear of being scolded or embarrassed. Nor is there any need for her to be either 'quiet' or 'good.' What is a 'good' patient? One who does whatever she is told-who masks all the stresses she is feeling? Why can she not cry, or laugh, or complain?”
“We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.”
“Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.”
“Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!”
“Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.163, Routledge

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