quotes about Extraordinary Life

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”

“The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.”

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

“I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.”

Source : "Master from Orient KIM KI-DUK". The Daily Star Interview, www.thedailystar.net. August 14, 2013.

“Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.”

“I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.”

“Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.”

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”

“Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.”

Source : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns”, p.120, UNM Press

“The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.”