"So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places."

-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Dark Quotes

“It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compaÃ±eros in San Marcos AvilÃ©s. The threat is immediate. The Committees of the True Word must make ourselves known in every way we can, to show clearly the strength of our solidarity.”
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
“She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I think women are often taken for granted.”
“And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.”

Source : Mike Mason (2009). “The Blue Umbrella: A Novel”, p.192, David C Cook
“You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.”
“Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1835). “England, Ireland, and America”, p.44
“Do those clowns really believe what they teach?”

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