"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else â€¦ you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Integrity Quotes #Surrender Quotes #Standards Quotes

“People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.”
“A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and photographs and sculpture and all the rest of that. I also spend a lot of time looking at the people on my street, and all of it simply exists in sort of this tremendous forceful wash of reality out of which comes, what I hope, are these shapely recognitions of reality, which are my poems.”
“We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.”
“For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can't feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. "Yes, I do," he says.”
“There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.”

Source : Thomas MacDonagh, “Of My Poems”
“So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.”
“There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.”
“Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change”

Source : FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Aug 22, 2013

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