"No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today."

-- Ned Vizzini

#Mom Quotes #Morning Quotes #Eye Quotes

“What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?”

Source : "Ysabella Brave"/"We Are a Powder Drink", August 20, 2008.
“Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears”
“I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!”
“The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.”
“I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.”

Source : "Legal Eagles Discuss Justice System". "Stateline" on ABC, May 13, 2005.
“All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.”
“Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.”
“In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: thatâ€™s where the decisions are made about whatâ€™s produced, how much is produced, whatâ€™s consumed, where investment takes place, who has jobs, who controls the resources, and so on and so forth. And as long as that remains the case, changes inside the political system can make some difference-I donâ€™t want to say itâ€™s zero-but the differences are going to be very slight.”

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