"And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Fighting Quotes #Decision Quotes #Choices Quotes

“From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.”

Source : Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House
“I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.”
“To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.”

Source : George Pólya, Leon Bowden (1977). “Mathematical Methods in Science”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
“We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be okay. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move, everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.”
“God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.”
“This is where it matters the most. This is where lives are made, in these moments when you can choose whether or not to say "I Can't" or "I Can." It is a choice that will either make or break you for life.”
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
“War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.”

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