"I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you."

Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Janet Mock

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Smart marketing is about help not hype.”

Source : Jay Baer, Darren Root (2014). “Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.12, Penguin
“When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“A dream has power to poison sleep.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192
“People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.”
“Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.”
“...the greatest tyrants over women are women.”
“I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it has been known to save the day with modern titles, too. But to have it as the agreed-upon way to how you play video games on Linux is completely unacceptable for several reasons, both technical and moral.”

Source : Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.
“Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.”

You may also like: