"Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience."

-- Lois Gibbs

#Determination Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Average Quotes

“You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.”
“I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.”
“Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”
“You donâ€™t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.”
“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”
“True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse”
“Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?”

Source : Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub
“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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