1 rating (4.00 avg)
0 reviews

Terry Sese

Add friend

Terry’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (2)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (0)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Terry’s Quotes

“Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: arrogance, greatness, humility, inadequacy, insecurity, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quote

547 likes

“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: diamonds, excellence, greatness, individuality

480 likes

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

tags: live-in-the-moment, live-life, sensuality

276 likes

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women

1250 likes

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

3740 likes

More of Terry’s quotes…