I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
Samantha Power
Related When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe... SHARIF MOHAMED She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. MARY OLIVER It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ... DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu... JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because... EDWARD EVERETT HALE If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have obviously never been in bed with a mos... PETER STROPLE Make a difference always and in all ways! PETER STROPLE People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either. JAIME CONTRERAS There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso... DEBORAH KERR He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. JEFFREY ARCHER It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
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