Quotes
Authors
Alice Walker

"Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead."

-- Alice Walker

#Hurt Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits)Â success is about proving youâ€™re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other (the world of changing qualities)Â itâ€™s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.15, Random House
“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“You have to develop a very thick skin.”
“She was tired of being the one who cried.”
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
“A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself â€“ body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work”
“We can only avoid the traps we can see.”

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