"You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards."

-- Valerie Simpson

#Two Quotes #Born Quotes

“One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.”
“Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.”
“I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel.”
“I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.”
“Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.”
“The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.”
“In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.”
“Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.”

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