Muse

“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Beethoven’s very words when he found he was inevitably going deaf. A musician, a great one, deaf? And I’m still alive aren’t I? ***Today I tell myself the same thing.  I am still alive. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

“At the end of the day there’s only one person responsible for where you’re at and that’s you. You can’t point your finger at anybody else. You’re the one responsible for what’s happening to you – and that’s it. And you’ve gotta have the balls and be man (edited: or woman) enough to realise that.” [...]

Source link All of Voltaire’s works contain memorable passages distinguished by elegance, perspicuity, and wit. His poetic and dramatic works, however, are marred often by too great a concentration on historical matter and philosophical propaganda. His other writings include the tragedies Brutus (1730), Zaire (1732), Alzire (1736), Mahomet (1741), and Merope (1743); the philosophical romance [...]

JEAN-CLAUDE SINGBATILE, a high school student in Congo, describing people bludgeoned to death by the rebels who kidnapped him and hundreds of others. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Florence Griffith Joyner (American athlete, 1988) Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

- From the TV sitcom ‘Judging Amy’ Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

I found this from the net.  Just on a day when I felt that sometimes, even when I need to f*cking curl up and be left alone, I can’t cause there’s this sense of responsibility that won’t allow me to. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but [...]