"Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living."

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Source : Carlos Bulosan, Epifanio San Juan (1995). “On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan”, p.88, Temple University Press

Carlos Bulosan

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“Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Nobody has the right to humiliate someone else, period.”
“Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.”
“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”
“The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.”
“What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.”
“An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.”

Source : Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.133, A&C Black
“Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.”

Source : Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.79, Moody Publishers

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