"In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me."

-- Mary J. Blige

#Sorry Quotes #Party Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
“I'm showing the boss what I can do. I was bought as a striker and I always believe I am a striker.”
“Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.”
“To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.”
“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.”

Source : "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.
“You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.”
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

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