"Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'"

-- Maya Angelou

#Strong Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.”
“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.”
“The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.”
“Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train”
“Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.”
“Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.”
“I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.
“When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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