“You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.”
Tupac Shakur book The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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Paul J. Alessi (1968) Actor / Producer
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“Communication is an essential factor in any type of relationship; friend, romantic, or business.”
Paul J. Alessi (1968) Actor / Producer
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“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Steelheart
“There is no reality but God,
says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"The Grasses" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 44
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Rumi Daylight (1990)
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, UN speech
Context: Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95ecdfa2-4be8-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html
“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”
Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
