Sisonke Learnership Quotes

#1. ... it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.

Markus Zusak

#2. I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Matthew McConaughey

#3. If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#4. Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Dan Quisenberry

#5. When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Roger Housden

#6. I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

David Henry Hwang

#7. I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.'
Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.

Rumi

#9. That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

Charles Kelley

#10. The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and what I did mattered. So much, sometimes, that I wasn't sure I wanted such a burden. But I took it anyway, and I carried it as best I could.

Lauren Wolk

#11. The closest I ever came to a near death experience was living in LA.

Deirdra Baldwin

#12. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen