"I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed."

-- Audre Lorde

#Perseverance Quotes #Believe Quotes #Self Quotes

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”
“Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.”
“Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.”
“It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media
“I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as free kittens.”
“I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.”

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