“My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.”
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“When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.”
“Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.”
“In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.”
“Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.”
“Education is our passport to the future.”
“I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
“The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth”
“Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.”
“Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.”
“The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.”
“Let a hundred flowers bloom.”
“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
“Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.”
“We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.”
“Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.”
“The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.”
“Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?”
“Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.”
“One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.”