"Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws."

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Source : Song: Letter To My Countrymen, Album: Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color, 2012

Brother Ali

#Beautiful Quotes #Flaws Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.”
“When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.”
“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.5, Open Road Media
“Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them. I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.”

Source : "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate". The Pittsburgh Press, August 3, 1986.
“We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.”

Source : "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.
“Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins
“For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.”
“Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.”

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