"Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time."

-- Harriet Tubman

#Friends Quotes #Quaker Quotes

“Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.”

Source : Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.”
“Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.”
“The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.”

Source : Charles Fillmore (2013). “Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life”, p.174, Courier Corporation
“I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.”
“When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.”
“By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.”
“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.”

Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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