"I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear."

-- Baba Amte

#Overcoming Quotes #Leprosy Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jan 09, 2012
“I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.”

Source : "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.
“Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.”
“If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.”
“The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.”
“Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.”
“If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.”
“I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.”

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