"Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times,"

-- Thabo Mbeki

#Adversity Quotes #People Quotes #Resilience Quotes

“This loving greeting is from the man who wants to share, my life, my love, my everything because nothing else compares.”
“By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.”
“Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.”
“Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.”
“Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.”
“One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.”
“No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.”

Source : "Mr. Dooley Discusses Party Prospects" (1901)
“What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence”

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