"Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Donâ€™t do that. Some day weâ€™ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you."

-- Maya Angelou

#Wall Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.”
“Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.”
“We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.”
“Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.”
“... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.276, Dial Press
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.”
“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”

Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann
“Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.”

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