"I told her once I wasnâ€™t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent."

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Girl Interrupted Quotes #Survival Quotes #Talent Quotes

“In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?”
“Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.”
“Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.”
“If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.”
“I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.”
“When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.”
“I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.”
“Change is never easy, but always possible.”

Source : Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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