"Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn."

-- Jose Rizal

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“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”

Source : "'I Want To Feel My Life While I’m In It' – The Wonderful Meryl Streep’s Greatest Quotes". www.marieclaire.co.uk. June 23, 2015.
“When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.”
“We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?”
“Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.”
“you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.”
“You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.”
“Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.”

Source : Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). “Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom”, p.93, Chicago Review Press
“All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.”

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