Quotes of Thurgood Marshall

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None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us.

- Thurgood Marshall

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“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it. ”

- Kamand Kojouri

“ Growing up in wartorn country like South Sudan wasn't hard and unbearable, but I'm always thankful for the experiences I encountered; cos with them I had realized my full potential to walked in seek of change and make impact on lives of others. ”

- Luka J. Riek

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Andre Gide

“ 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

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

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

- ventum

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

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

- Max Ehrmann