"When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too."

-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Real Quotes #Ancestry Quotes #Birth Quotes

“I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.”
“A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.”

Source : "The United State of Atlantis". Book by Harry Turtledove, 2008.
“My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.”

Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
“If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.”
“Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.”
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

Source : Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria
“Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.”

Source : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr
“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

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