"Beauty is not caused. It is."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Beauty Quotes #Children Quotes

“We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.”
“I think everyone should sell other people's stuff and their own stuff. I think everyone, almost everyone should mix those two business models.”
“As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage
“I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. ItÂ´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent canÂ´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.”
“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.”

Source : "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.
“Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.”
“I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.”
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.15, Penguin

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