Marquita Quotes

#1. While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#2. If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts ...

John Durham Peters

#3. The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Chogyam Trungpa

#4. Couples fight, but it's how you make up that counts.

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#5. It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#6. My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#7. Confidence is more attractive than anything you could put on your body.

Sophia Amoruso

#8. Love is the beginning of significance.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#9. I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#10. No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#11. Sometimes a tough girl who is used to saving herself needs a hero. And

Ker Dukey

#12. Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#13. The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#14. No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#15. When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#16. The world is starving for great love.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#17. developing resilience is by necessity a very personal journey.

Marquita Herald

#18. Suffering has a noble purpose.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#19. Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

Jaggi Vasudev

#20. Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#21. Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#22. Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind ... the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

Phil Crane

#23. My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

Victoria Chang

#24. Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#25. I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#26. I think bravery is a lot less formal than it sounds. Bravery is being able to have a conversation with a stranger. It's going back to school even after years of being away. It's being you even when it's easier to be someone else.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#27. I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#28. ...he'd say whatever she wanted him to if she kept looking at him like that.

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#29. Love isn't jealous. It's kind and patient. It's accepting--it's late night talks and early morning kisses. It's arguing and making up. It's life with the one you can't live without.

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