"Cut your coat according to your cloth."

-- John Heywood

#Humility Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Coats Quotes

“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”

Source : "Daredevil completes walk across Niagara Falls". www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.
“Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.”
“The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.”
“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”
“And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.”
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.”

Source : Mark Mathabane (1986). “Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa”, Macmillan Pub Co
“Loyalty is something you should always hold sacred in your heart.”
“When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.”

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