Deljan Bregasi Quotes & Sayings

If we can't say "thy will be done" from the bottom of our hearts, we will never know any peace. We will feel compelled to try to control people and control our environment and make things the way we believe they ought to be. — Timothy Keller

I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong. — Three Days Grace

68. In A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), Wilder writes, "The ghetto is not so much a place as it is a relationship - the physical manifestation of a perverse imbalance in social power. The ghetto is not the cause of social pathology, it is its destination. It is not the set of ever-changing, ever-negotiated disparities that dominate it but the financial, physical, and legal coercion that give rise to them. It cannot be defined by the people who occupy it but by the struggles that place them there. It is not social inequality but the attempt to predetermine the burden of social inequality. Thus, ghettos are different sizes, have different demographics, and suffer different conditions. They have in common only the lack of power that allows their residents to be physically concentrated and socially targeted" (p. 234). — Mark R. Gornik

To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. — Albert Camus

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone. — Meg Cabot

The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it. — Adam Silvera

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step. — Seung Sahn