"...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it."

-- Cesar Chavez

#Character Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.”
“Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.”
“We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.”
“Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this...”
“Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.”
“I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.”

Source : Kay Warren (2012). “Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough”, p.247, Baker Books
“The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.”
“I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.”

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