Quotes of James Baldwin

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The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

- James Baldwin

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“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

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

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

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

- e.e. cummings

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

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

- Chuck Klosterman

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

- Henry David Thoreau