"no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world."

-- Alice Walker

#Friendship Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.”
“Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.”
“Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.”

Source : "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.
“And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.”
“The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.”
“We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.”
“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”
“You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.”

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