"I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die."

-- Juan Ramon Jimenez

#Hate Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Calm Quotes

“Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.”
“It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”

Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
“As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.”
“Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.”
“A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.”
“I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.”
“To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others”
“Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.”

Source : "Bill O'Reilly: Hillary Clinton for president", www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2015.

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