I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
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I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!
Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?
I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
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