"He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass."

-- Shang Yang

#Independent Quotes #Pride Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.”

Source : Carrie Prejean (2009). “Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks”, p.177, Regnery Publishing
“The world spins along outside, the sun rises and sets, the streets go dark, the lights come on. The future is happening, but it can wait until tomorrow. Neither of us knows what will come next, or where we go from here, or even what anyone will say about us, but none of it matters. Weâ€™ve got each other right now.”
“Look for the answer inside your question.”
“Macrame is effortless.”
“You are forever alone.”
“A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.”
“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
“There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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