Quote by James Baldwin
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. -

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. – James Baldwin

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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

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Society
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

Category:
Charity
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

Category:
America
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Acceptance
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Acceptance

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Acceptance

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Acceptance

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. – Maureen Dowd

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Acceptance

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks

Category:
Confidence

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. – Paul Ryan

Category:
Morning

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato

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Wise Words

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. – Eva Perón

Category:
Poverty