"The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot."

-- Bill Drayton

#Giving Quotes #Variables Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.”
“Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.”
“There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.”
“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”

Source : Robin McKinley (2011). “Beauty”, p.177, Random House
“The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion.”
“Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.”
“Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”
“People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.”

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