"We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world."

-- Laurie Anderson

#Courage Quotes #Past Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure.”

Source : John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.53
“The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.”
“Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!”
“Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.”
“Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.”

Source : The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}
“In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”
“No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster
“The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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