Quotes of Cicely Tyson

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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

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“ 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

“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

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

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Émile Zola

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

- John F. Kennedy

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ 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

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

- John Updike

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson