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- At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
- You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I…
- What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity…
- On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin…
- Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven…
- Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone…
- Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in…
- For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries…
- That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to…
- To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the…
- I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take…
- We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people…
- Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is…
- I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is…
- Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
- I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way…
- A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach…
- Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me.…
- I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a…
- Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I…
- Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
- Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
- There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished…
- Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
- I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong