Quotes of Chester Himes

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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

- Chester Himes

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“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Motorbike Poem by Malay Roy Choudhury I am on motorbike yezdi yamaha when flanked by horizon gallop backwards through sand blizzard tinsel clouds explode at my feet without helmet and speedsplit air at eighty in midsummer simoon each soundcart recedes onrushing lorries flee in a flash No time to brood but Yes accident expected anytime may even turn into a junkheap in a droughtnursed field. Translation of Bengali original 'Motor Cycle ”

- Malay Roychoudhury

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ 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

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

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

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Dalai Lama

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Laura Lynch