"Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?"

-- Ally Condie

#Thinking Quotes

“An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity”

Source : Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation
“The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.”
“I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.”
“We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.”
“Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.”
“I don't think of myself as a singer really.”
“Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.”
“Ask yourself what makes you come alive.”

Source : "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

You may also like:

Ally Carter
Author
James Dashner
Author
Kiera Cass
Author
Lauren Oliver
Author
Maggie Stiefvater
Writer
Scott Westerfeld
Writer
Suzanne Collins
Writer
Tahereh Mafi
Author
Veronica Roth
Novelist