Say What? by Sandy Foster (best black authors txt) 📖

blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.” – Anonymous
1060. “No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.” – Louis Brandeis
1061. “Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow! Grow!’” – The Talmud
1062. “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” – Rita Mae Brown
1063. “The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.” – Arnold Bennett
1064. “We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.” – Marianne Williamson
1065. “Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.” – Harold Kushner
1066. “Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching.” – Tennessee Williams
1067. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” – Ovid
1068. “Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are here to protect us.” – Suztes40
1069. “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda Saraswati
1070. “Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.” – Don Sutton
1071. “When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.” – Elie Wiesel
1072. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
1073. “Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.” – Lawrence J. Peter
1074. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter Drucker
1075. “The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.” – Unknown
1076. “Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.” – Kathleen Winsor
1077. “Inches make champions.” – Vince Lombardi
1078. “To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.” – Joan Didion
1079. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin
1080. “If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor.” – Neil Simon
1081. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Andrew Jackson
1082. “Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.” – Marva Collins
1083. “Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.” – Baruch Spinoza
1084. “The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity's flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve.” – Hasidic saying
1085. “I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?” – William Stafford
1086. “One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.” – Sophocles
1087. “Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” – Christina Rossetti
1088. “Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.” – Saadi
1089. “Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.” – Wally “Famous” Amos
1090. “You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.” – Charles Allen
1091. “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1092. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anna Freud
1093. “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Confucius
1094. “God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.” – Izaak Walton
1095. “That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” – William Feather
1096. “Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.” – Channing Pollack
1097. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie
1098. “What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.” – Matina Horner
1099. “Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!” – Charles Dickens
1100. “The highest wisdom is loving kindness.” – The Talmud
1101. “We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.” – Blaise Pascal
1102. “Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.” – Socrates
1103. “All I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
1104. “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” – Freya Stark
1105. “When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on — for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stow
1106. “The only people to get even with are those who have helped you.” –Anonymous
1107. “Happiness does not come from doing what you want, but wanting what you do.”
1108. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend
to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut
1109. “We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.” – Tobias Wolff
1110. “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
1111. “I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.” – Rabbi Hillel
1112. “Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.” – Hal Lindsey
1113. “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.” – Mary Catherine Bateson
1114. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.” – Victor Hugo
1115. “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.” – William Butler Yeats
1116. “When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.” – David Orr
1117. “It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.” – Queen Christina
1118. “He who thinks most of heaven will do most for earth.” – Anonymous
1119. “The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” – Norman Cousins
1120. “Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.” – Helen Hayes
1121. “Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.” – Plutarch
1122. “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” – Pyotr Tchaikovsky
1123. “Those who want much, are always much in need.” – Horace
1124. “Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.” – Executive Speechwriter Newsletter
1125. “To play it safe is not to play.” – Robert Altman
1126. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Goethe
1127. “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.” – Josh Billings
1128. “Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” – Buddha
1129. “Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” – Sarah Bernhardt
1130. “Angels may not dress the part, With robes and wings that soar, Often angels come as friends Knocking at your door.” – Unknown
1131. “I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman
1132. “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard
1133. “Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.” – Admiral William Halsey
1134. “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg.” – C. S. Lewis
1135. “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.” – Proverbs 16:24
1136. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” – Agatha Christie
1137. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
1138. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear.” – Glenn Clark
1139. “It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.” – Charles Caleb Colton
1140. “Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?” – Unknown
1141. “Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.” – Billie Jean King
1142. “It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.” – Aesop
1143. “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.” – Alexandre Dumas
1144. “Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” – Raymond Charles Barker
1145. “One finds great comfort in good dinners.” – Zora Neale Hurston
1146. “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” – Lin Yutan
1147. “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg
1148. “You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.” – Stanislaw J. Lec
1149. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
1150. “If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo
1151. “Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.” – Lois McMaster Bujold
1152. “Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.” – Lucille Ball
1153. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1154. “When you see a good man, think of