"Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one."

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Source : FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2011

Toni Morrison

#Commitment Quotes #Justice Quotes #Not Good Enough Quotes

“The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.”
“My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.”
“In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.”
“You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.”
“I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.”
“Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.”
“Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink.”
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”

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