Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.
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Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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