"It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Adversity Quotes #Serenity Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.”
“Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.”
“I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.”
“Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.”

Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (War Comes to the Cheyenne)". Book by Dee Brown (pp. 86-87), 1970.
“I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.”
“I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!”

Source : Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.357, Cosimo, Inc.
“The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.”

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