"People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel"

-- Studs Terkel

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin
“Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.”
“To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.”
“Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly”
“A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.”
“For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no matter how faint the breeze. The wind went where it wanted to go, and its path was easy to detect because it moved objects and people. But no one had ever seen the wind.”
“I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.”

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