"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness"

-- Jean Vanier

#Love Yourself Quotes #Learning Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”
“I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, â€œIf we can find the trillions [of dollars] weâ€™re finding for conflict whether thereâ€™s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money thatâ€™s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.â€”
“When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.”
“Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.”
“The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (1992). “The Changing Nature of Global Security and Its Impact on South Asia”
“I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.”

Source : "Rebecca Black Talks Friday and Cyberbullying in First Interview" by Chris Lee, www.thedailybeast.com. March 17, 2011.

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