"You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

-- Rumi

#Wings Quotes #Use Quotes #Crawling Quotes

“The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?”
“So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.”
“Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box”
“Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.”
“The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.”
“Everyone has their own Everest to climb”
“From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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