"Your silence will not protect you."

-- Audre Lorde

#Inspiring Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Healing Quotes

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.”
“Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.”
“In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.”
“Every choice we make is either a grwoth choice or a fear choice.”

Source : "Breakable You".
“The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”
“At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.”
“Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.”
“That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.”

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