"I wish to live beacause life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and--I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations."

-- Lorraine Hansberry

#Beautiful Quotes #Wish Quotes #Generations Quotes

“You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.143, Profile Books
“Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.”
“[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.”
“Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.”
“Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.”
“We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private.”
“The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.”

Source : Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan
“It didnâ€™t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other”

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