A D-Xirable Poem! Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

"Every time you judge yourself, you break your own heart." 
- Unknown

If you don't know the kind of person I am,

And I don't know the kind of person you are;

Then we should LOVE one another,

And not judge each other.

Hello my wonderful and amazing loves!

I decided to do this post on one of my favorite poems, "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. I came across it the other day and I thought that it would make a lovely addition to my blog. It's such a beautiful and inspiring poem!

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

― Mother Teresa

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

"Still I Rise"

by Maya Angelou

 Fine Artist: Greg Garner of New York City

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past that's rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

 "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

― Dr. Seuss

"People are going to talk about you no matter what you do so I’d much rather be judged for standing out than for fitting in."

― Unknown

People will talk about you, people may even say some bad things about you, just remember to always rise when others try to bring you down! It doesn't matter what others think about you, how they feel about you, or what they say about you, just be yourself. Be true to who you are! There's no one on this planet that's exactly like you. You are unique, you are special, and more importantly, you are one of a kind! Just be true to you! People will love you for just doing that! Besides, no one knows you better than you know yourself. :)

 “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

Hope you enjoyed the post!

Love always,

LaTasha B.

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D-Xirable War and Peace Quotes!

Hello my loves,

I'm sorry about the delay in this post.

There are OVER 1,000 quotes on War and Peace! In order to pick which ones that I thought were the best, I had to read all of those that I could find. So, that's why this post took SO long to do! Also, I've been really busy doing other things.

With that said, I am ALWAYS for PEACE but I decided to add the few pro - war quotes that I found just because. So, here's the post. Yes, it's long. But like I said, there are TONS of quotes on this subject!

(Sort of) Pro - War Quotes

War creates peace like hate creates love. ~David L. Wilson

Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. ~George W. Bush (Hahaha)

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. ~Colin Powell

The only defensible war is a war of defense. ~G. K. Chesterton

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. ~Omar Bradley

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. ~George Washington

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~John Andrew Holmes

Anti - War Quotes

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses... ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies. ~Jeanette Winterson

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own. ~Phillip Caputo

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ~Robert Lynd

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead. ~Ken Gillespie

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. ~W. L. George

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. ~Mahatma Gandhi

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell. ~General William Tecumseh Sherman

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. ~James Madison

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

War remains the decisive human failure. ~John Kenneth Galbraith

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ~Agatha Christie

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ~Senator John McCain

War is the business of barbarians. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ~Alexander Berkman

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. ~Jimmy Carter

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. ~Alfred Adler

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~Jose Narosky

What a cruel thing is war...to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee

There is but one evil, war. All the other proclaimed evils such as hate, greed, discrimination  and jealousy are only sub-categories of it. ~Jose Barreiro

Old men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert C. Hoover

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~Lao Tzu

Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions... ~Thomas Sowell

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize. ~Ramman Kenoun

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. ~Herman Goering

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction... ~John Cory

In war, there are no winners. ~Ramman Kenoun

It's more humane to cure your enemies than to kill them. ~Hugh Mann

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

In order to rally people, governments need enemies...if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. ~Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

War is the cemetery of futures promised. ~John Cory

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Force always attracts men of low morality. ~Albert Einstein

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy

Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. ~David Borenstein

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. ~Mark Twain

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. ~Herodotus

The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. ~Sun Tzu

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him? ~Blaise Pascal

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow...that are the aftermath of war. ~Herbert C. Hoover

War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. ~Martin Luther

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ~Ernest Hemingway

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. ~Simone de Beauvoir

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him. ~King Baudouin I of Belgium

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ~H. L. Mencken

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents…. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. ~Ludwig von Mises

There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Benjamin Franklin

An eye for an eye makes us all blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ~Albert Einstein

War comes from our being immature, fearful, and injured, and not being able to conceive of other ways of solving problems. ~Patricia Sun

Conflict is the criminals' paradise; it is the only time when killing is allowed, theft is tolerated, and rape is forgiven. ~Ramman Kenoun

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~General Omar N. Bradley

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this world... ~Robert E. Lee

What a cruel thing war is...to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. ~Robert E. Lee

War settles nothing. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ~Jeane Kirkpatrick

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

War: first, one hopes to win...in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~Karl Kraus

How does one prevail in war? Both sides have already lost. ~Logan Kodysz

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. ~Max Lucade

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Peace Quotes

Peace is constructed, not fought for. ~Brent Davis

As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance. ~Lydia Sicher

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~Jimmy Carter

Respect for the rights of others means peace. ~Benito Juárez

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them. ~Admiral Sir John Fisher

All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ~John Locke

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. ~Thomas Jefferson

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. ~Alfred Adler

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. ~Ludwig von Mises

A people free to choose will always choose peace. ~Ronald Reagan

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ~Dorothy Thompson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ~Thomas Jefferson

Peace...is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. ~Dorothy Thompson

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. ~John Greenleaf Whittier

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

If peace...only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. ~Sophie Kerr

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ~Albert Einstein

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ~Bernard M. Baruch

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ~Kin Hubbard

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are...savages. ~Thomas Alva Edison

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. ~Thomas Merton

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ~Cesar Chavez

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment. ~Thich Nhat Hahn

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. ~Thomas Jefferson

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. ~Dale Turner

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ~Henry Havelock Ellis

War is a defeat for humanity. ~Pope John Paul II

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. ~Abraham Lincoln

Peace and not war is the father of all things. ~Ludwig von Mise

Peace is its own reward. ~Mahatma Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~Moshe Dayan

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. ~Thomas A Kempis

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ~Nelson Mandela

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. ~John Lennon

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ~Friedrich Schiller

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. ~Carlos Santana

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. ~Mahatma Gandhi

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ~Anton Chekov

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~Jimi Hendrix

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world. ~Maha Ghosananda

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. ~Ronald Reagan

I hope that you enjoyed this post!

Thank you to Marianne M. from Lure of the dark side (http://lureofthedarkside.blogspot.com/) for suggesting that I do this post!

Love always,

LaTasha B.

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Some of My D-Xirably Favorite Quotes! (Mother Teresa, Mahatma Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Buddha, MLK Jr., Hellen Keller, etc.)

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”    
~Mother Teresa

I was an English major, so I enjoy wonderful, powerful, and thought-provoking quotes! Here are some of my favorite quotes by some of my favorite leaders and people! Many of them are by religious/spiritual leaders. What did you expect? I minored in Theology! While other quotes are from political leaders. Again, what did you expect? I was a Political Science minor as well! :) Lastly, other quotes are by major celebrities (actresses - Theatre minor of course!) and other influential people.

Misquoted as Mother Teresa (by Dr. Kent M. Keith)

"Do It Anyway"

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Be good anyway.

Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People need help, but may attack you if you try to help them.
Help them anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway."

Mother Teresa

“Peace begins with a smile..”

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”   

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”   

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”    

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”    

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”  

“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us." 

“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

 "Life"

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.”  

Mahatma Ghandi

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."

"Where love is, there God is also."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

"Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of other."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."

Dalai Lama

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."

Buddha

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. "

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Anne Frank

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Bob Marley

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”

"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side."

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”

“Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright”

“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny."

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”    

Walt Disney

"What's possible has been done, What's impossible must be done."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

"I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things."

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do. "

Abraham Lincoln

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"Everybody likes a compliment."

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Marilyn Monroe

“I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.”

“I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

“I've never dropped anyone I believed in.”

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."

Judy Garland

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love."

These are just some of the quotes that I'm very fond of and many of them are by some of my favorite leaders. Some of these quotes are just different versions borrowed from other leaders but I LOVE them just the same. I hope that you enjoyed reading some of my favorite quotes! :)

Love always,

LaTasha B.

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