"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Letting Go Quotes #Stay Strong Quotes #Men Quotes

“The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.”
“So who do you want to be?â€ I smiled, resting my head against his chest. â€œIâ€™m not sure yet, but Iâ€™m looking forward to finding out.”
“To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"”
“I still have a dream.”
“It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.”

Source : "401(k) Participants Need an 'Arab Spring'" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2011.
“To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.”
“I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.18, A&C Black
“The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.”

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