"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself."

-- Louis XIV

#Men Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack....”
“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
“The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face”
“Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.”
“I am a clown...and I collect moments.”
“People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.”
“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
“My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.”

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