Working On Becoming A Better Person Quotes & Sayings

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother ... was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks ... ' — Gerry Spence

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually. — Boy George

But I know I didn't love school for school's sake. I had never really been what people call an 'academic' person, nor did I see myself becoming one. Instead, I took pleasure in the fact that my work existed in a social setting, one that was based on the promise of a brighter future. I knew that what I adored about school was that each of my assignments - readings, essays, or in-class presentations - was inseparable from my relationships [ ... ] If I loved school at all, I loved it for what it provided me access to: bonds with people I grew to cherish. And nothing was better than working toward my dreams alongside people I loved who were doing the same. — Liz Murray

Every morning we have a choice
forget our dreams or live them. — Seth Gabel

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. — Henry David Thoreau

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. — Andromeda Edison

I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen. — James Norton