“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.”— Bill Russell, goodreads.com
“Dear future self: Do not forget to live. You have been hard on yourself for far too long.”— Orenda, instagram.com
“When life is ready for us to move forward and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects—seemi…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity—of the wonder of innumerable forms of life—has always thrilled me beyond anything…”— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.org
“If you can't laugh at yourself, then what the fuck is the point of living?”— Shane Dawson, goodreads.com
“In life we are given two choices: we can exist or we can experience what it means to be alive.”— Stephanie Anne, instagram.com
“People say, I'm seventy-two years young. My ass. I'm seventy-two years old. But you've got to live to get old. You can't get old without living.”— Jim Brown, esquire.com
“My ideas come from life; they come from work; they come from everyday living.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”— Chuck Yeager, inspiringquotes.us