"I wouldnt change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today."

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Source : FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jun 03, 2014

Sugar Ray Leonard

#Hurt Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.”
“I called it Kinkoâ€™s because of my nickname â€” because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing a baby learns is â€˜Googoo, gaga,â€™ and if you think of good businesses like Kodak, Xerox, Google, people remember consonants â€” which was why Kinkoâ€™s was a good name. But really I had this big head of curly hair and before being called â€˜Kinkoâ€™ I was â€˜Pube Head.â€™ So I thought Kinkoâ€™s was better than Puboâ€™s.”
“The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.”
“Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.”
“Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.”

Source : Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd
“I'm a private kind of person.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Source : Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.347, Atlantic Monthly Press

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