"I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world"

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Source : Song: What A Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong

#Blessed Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”
“You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.”
“I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.”
“Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.”
“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Mar 02, 2014
“Turn your eyes away from fear. Discontinue the conversations of fear if you choose to embrace the fullness of your heart”
“Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.”
“Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.”

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