"The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other."

-- Richard Flanagan

#Dream Quotes #Lying Quotes #Hate Quotes

“Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.”
“Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.”
“I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 05, 2013
“I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.”
“Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions manifests spontaneously through intuition. Intuition gives expression to the feelings; that expression is unique and perfectly fitted to the needs of the moment.”
“Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.”
“Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.”
“We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”

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