"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."

-- James A. Michener

#Self Esteem Quotes #Men Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.”
“Just do a thing and donÂ’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.”
“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.”
“The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.”
“You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain a lot of healing. As a person who has been watching other's rage for years, instead of having my own tantrums, I keep the feelings inside until I can find a way of making them into music. The songs are like healing spells and it really works for me. When I really do a good job on a song, it gets rid of a weight. As far as hope goes, there is hope that you can heal through processing stuff and make it through to the other side. That's all I can hope for.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...”

Source : "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII" by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, Great Britain. Public Record Office, (vol. XX, part 2, p. 513), 1862.
“Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.”
“The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.”

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