#chi

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#always #am #body #going #i

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#around #basketball #cameras #come #control

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#history #long #movement #reaching #terms

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#burma #could #everyone #good #just

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#along #assume #begun #community #dialogue

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i #loner #much #only #pretty

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#always #been #believe #believer #body

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#children #often #silent #victims

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#among #beautiful #being #being beautiful #cannot

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature. ↗

— Phillip M. Hoose

#high-school #literature #teaching #life