"We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value."

-- Patricia Deegan

#Inspirational Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.”
“I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.”
“Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.”
“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”
“The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.”
“Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?”
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”

Source : Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.”

Source : "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language … of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.

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