Yifru Berhan Quotes

#1. When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing that person to control you.

Joel Osteen

#2. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

Sinclair Lewis

#4. To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

Michael Shurtleff

#5. Is any history really all that ancient? ... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#6. Rise and take your stance once again

Bob Marley

#7. The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years
but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago
Aren't they in their own kinds of prisons too?

B.J. Ward

#9. Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

Harriet Lerner