"I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone."

-- Chaka Khan

#Years Quotes #Circles Quotes #People Quotes

“America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.”
“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
“We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

Source : "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.
“In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.213, Penguin
“Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.”
“Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.”

Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing
“You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.”

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