"There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity."

-- Maya Angelou

#Thinking Quotes #Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes

“You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series.”
“So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.”
“If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.”
“The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.”
“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”
“You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.”

Source : "Michael Rooker (Merle Dixon)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.
“The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press
“I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.”

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