Gioconda Belli quotes
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“Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.”
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“The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.”
-- Gioconda BelliSource : "Daughter of the revolution" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2002.
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“Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.”
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“About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy.”
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“I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.”
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“My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.”
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“Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than”
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“You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.73, Penguin
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“I'm not the type of person that is forced.”
Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
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“Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.”
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“Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.”
Source : Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
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“Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.”
Source : "Yoga for Men: Adam Levine, Rocker Yogi". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.womenshealthmag.com. June 24, 2008.
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