"Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable."

-- Sojourner Truth

#Helping Others Quotes #Men Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.”
“Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.”
“I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.”
“What if River Phoenix had lived?”

Source : "What if River Phoenix had lived?" by Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 19, 2013.
“A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.”

Source : Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.
“Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.”
“Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.”
“I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.”

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