"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Birthday Quotes

“Something worth doing is something worth putting your heart into.”
“When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.”
“The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.”
“What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.”
“Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.”
“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.367, Simon and Schuster
“I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.”
“I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.”

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