"All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test."

-- Pat Nixon

#Strong Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some ***** in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.”

Source : "We Accept You, One of Us?: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974-1985". Book by Mary Montgomery Wolf, 2007.
“Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?”
“The world of modelling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.”
“Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior in that space. I don't know if we know how to change that, but our goal is to make spaces for people rather than people being subservient to spaces.”

Source : Source: www.revelinnewyork.com
“The best advice I could give is be yourself. Before I was on the American Idol show I made goals for myself. I said, "Who do I want to be, and what will I compromise, or won't I compromise?" And then, I stuck with that.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.”

Source : "Mofo 2016: the avant-garde comes to Hobart for a Gatsby-style party" by Monica Tan, Melissa Davey, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2016.
“Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.”
“Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.”

Source : "A history of Christian missions during the Middle Ages". Book by George Frederick Maclear, p. 365, 1863.

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