Pary Quotes

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

A table,

a chair,

a bowl of fruit and a violin;

what else does a man need to be happy?

The time is near at hand which must determine

whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The more you seek the uncomfortable,

the more you will grow.

It’s all in the hips.

It’s all in the hips.

Mama was my greatest teacher a teacher of compassion love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

The intuition of the moral sentiment

is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.

These laws execute themselves.

They are out of time, out of space,

and not subject to circumstance.

I’ve always been drawn to eccentric people

they keep life interesting.

I love the sea.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Your life is your message to the world.

Make sure it’s inspiring.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

You can fail at what you don’t want,

so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.

It is the quality of the moment,

not the number of days,

or events,

or of actors,

that imports.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon

the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Passion is the engine of creativity.

Where large sums of money are concerned,

it is advisable to trust nobody.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.