"Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Names Quotes #Purity Quotes #Moderation Quotes

“So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.”
“I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance , insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.”
“Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.”
“Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.”
“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”
“Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.”
“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”
“It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.”

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