"Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger."

-- Adora Svitak

#Voice Quotes #Age Quotes #World Quotes

“Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.”
“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.”
“Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016
“I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.”
“In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.”

Source : Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Source : Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.
“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”

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