"Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . ."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Past Quotes #Anticipate Quotes

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.”
“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber
“My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.”
“I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.”
“It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”

Source : "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", 1951.
“Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small businessperson in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.”

Source : "Chobani Yogurt's Success Starts Where a Giant Left Off". Interview with Diana Ransom, www.entrepreneur.com. May 25, 2012.
“I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.”
“You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.”

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