"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Love Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Fathers Day Quotes

“There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.”
“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”

Source : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.”
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”
“I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.”

Source : "Work Hard, Play Hard: Backstage With Nicola Formichetti". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 20, 2011.
“First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now”

Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.109, New Harbinger Publications

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