Quotes About Purple Hibiscus

#1. What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

M. Scott Peck

#2. Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Jonathan Kozol

#3. Although I kept postponing my dream, I realized that I could do so no longer, and that the universe always favors those who fight for what they want. After

Paulo Coelho

#4. I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#6. Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

Henry James

#8. I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#9. Please, do not take the internet literally because it is data. Life happens. Thank you.

David Chiles

#10. I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?

Jon Ronson

#11. A person will buy something they really don't need off of a salesperson they really like before they buy something they desperately need off of someone they despise. ... Johnny Flora

Johnny Flora

#12. When life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

Reba McEntire

#13. Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.
Some things dwell in the dark: waiting ... watching ... haunting.
Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.
And silence is the last thing you hear, when it's already too late.
THE SILENCE

Barry Brickey