"Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me."

-- Sojourner Truth

#Determination Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Light Quotes

“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
“It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.”
“In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.”
“Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'”
“The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage
“Meditation is a doorway to the soul.”

Source : James Van Praagh (2014). “Adventures of the Soul: Journeys Through the Physical and Spiritual Dimensions”, p.127, Hay House, Inc
“Itâ€™s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iâ€™m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iâ€™ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youâ€™re dead.”
“These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer.”

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