"When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness."

-- Maya Angelou

#Responsibility Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”
“Do we still have the right to be more than victims?”
“One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.”
“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”
“I like down-to-earth people.”

Source : "Exclusive: Amos Lee Gets Personal". Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 26, 2011.
“I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.”
“Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.”
“The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.”

Source : George V. Higgins (1990). “The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town”, Prentice Hall

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