Quotes of Cicely Tyson

“ Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm. ”

- Cicely Tyson

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:12 NIV) ”

- Anonymous

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes