"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

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Source : Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

Marcus Garvey

#Confidence Quotes #Race Quotes #Self Quotes

“Brothers are so unpleasant.”
“I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.”
“We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.”

Source : Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr
“I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.”
“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”
“I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.”

Source : "Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Stars, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim" by Steven Baker and David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.
“If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.”

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