"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."

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Anna Quindlen

#Life Quotes #Beach Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”
“I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.”
“We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.”
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

Source : Attributed to Jonathan Swift in "Scientific American", Volume 7 (p. 338), 1851; also in M. M. Ballou "Treasury of Thought" (p. 433), 1884.
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”
“The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We donâ€™t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always â€˜in spite of.â€™”
“Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.”
“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”

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