Bessie Head Quotes

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Author | July 6, 1937 - April 17, 1986
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Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
Søren Kierkegaard
Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
Rumi
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.
Steve Jobs
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
Rumi
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去食、自古皆有死、民無信不立。
Confucius
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
Bertrand Russell
I can't love you in the dark,
It feels like we're oceans apart.
There is so much space between us,
Baby, we're already defeated.
Ah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, everything changed me.
Adele
?It’ pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.”
Madam C. J. Walker
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?There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
Madam C. J. Walker
Never mind, I'll find someone like you,
I wish nothing but the best for you, too.
Don't forget me, I beg.
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
But sometimes it hurts instead.
Adele
They were walking side by side, but each was alone.
Simone de Beauvoir
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?sogar daß ihm auch wohl Philosophen, als einer gewissen Veredelung der Menschheit, eine Lobrede halten, uneingedenk des Ausspruchs jenes Griechen: »Der Krieg ist darin schlimm, daß er mehr böse Leute macht, als er deren wegnimmt«.
Immanuel Kant
? my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
Steve Jobs