"Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?"

-- Padgett Powell

#Thinking Quotes #Youth Quotes #Bluster Quotes

“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”
“We can program ourselves to be the person we want to be, whatever the subject matter is, live in it by a mental physical program - a system of learning and doing. Studying all the greats in that field and becoming greater. I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.”
“The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.”
“I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.”
“Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.”
“If you give up, the game is already over.”

Source : "How 'Slam Dunk' Manga artist brings characters to life" by Lianne Turner, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
“The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.”

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