"In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective."

-- Ferdinand Foch

#Finding Yourself Quotes #Firsts Quotes #April Quotes

“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.171, Pan Macmillan
“She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.”

Source : "In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.
“You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.”
“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”

Source : Primo Levi (1995). “The Periodic Table”, Schocken
“As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.”
“Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.”
“The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.”

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