Quotes of Constance Baker Motley

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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

- Constance Baker Motley

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“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ Give yourself permission to practice selfcare and to make time for your own dreams, goals, and priorities. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

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

- Roy T. Bennett