"I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket [to his concert], and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Eddie Levert

#People Quotes #Doe Quotes #Want Quotes

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.”
“I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.”
“Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press
“The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be”
“Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?”
“Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.60, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...”

Source : Isobelle Carmody (2007). “Winter Door: The Gateway Trilogy Book Two”, p.9, Random House Books for Young Readers
“But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.59

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