"I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance."

--

Jim Thorpe

#Skills Quotes #Trying Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“That's what children are forâ€”that their parents may not be bored.”
“Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.”

Source : "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
“But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.”
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
“Yeah, that's a good point.”
“Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.”
“The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.”
“You canâ€™t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”

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