"The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

-- Calvin Coolidge

#Inspirational Quotes #Determination Quotes #Race Quotes

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.â€Ž”
“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.”
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
“Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.”
“I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.”
“Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.”

Source : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
“My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.”
“Do you see those colors? Take them!”

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