"It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself."

-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Challenges Quotes #Important Quotes #Be True To Yourself Quotes

“Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.”
“Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.”
“The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.”
“It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.”
“One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.”

Source : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283
“My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.”
“In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might”

Source : Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”
“My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.”

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