"Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself."

-- Charles de Lint

#Spiritual Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Long Quotes

“Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.”
“I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.”
“What God is to the world, parents are to their children.”
“How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.”
“Weâ€™ve always assumed The Aegis is all-knowing highly trained and organized but itâ€™s nothing but a cult, isnâ€™t it ? The weak and uneducated being led by those with their own agendas. Brainwashed lemmings following orders without question.”
“You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.”
“The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone elseâ€™s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadnâ€™t been able to see before.”

Source : "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.
“Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.”

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