Quotes of Jacob Riis

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The slum is the measure of civilization.

- Jacob Riis

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“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ 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

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

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

- Stephen Richards

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das