"Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner."

-- Ravi Shankar

#Country Quotes #Book Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.”

Source : 'Remains Concerning Britain' (1605) 'Epitaphs'
“Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.”
“What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses â€“ I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.”
“Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.”

Source : Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.50, Macmillan
“We die a little every day and by degrees weâ€™re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.110, Penguin
“The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015
“I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”

Source : "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation". Book by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, 2001.

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