"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it."

-- Scipio Africanus

#Life Is Quotes

“I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.”
“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.
“Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.”

Source : "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.
“I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.”
“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”

Source : Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.20, Spectra
“One never really knows who one's enemy is.”
“Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.”

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