"Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you."

-- Gloria Gaynor

#Life Quotes #Confidence Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”
“I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.”
“If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.”
“I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.”
“Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.”

Source : Frances Fox Piven (2012). “Lessons for Our Struggle”, p.12, Haymarket Books
“The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.”
“I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.”
“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”

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