Jackie Robinson

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

No matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Softness has such a power to it. When you choose to soften into something, it relaxes, opens, tension releases. Stuck energy flows like blood coursing through veins, bringing much needed oxygen. Life force and warmth enters, connection is rekindled. Find the trust you need to allow softness in; it really is healing.

Truth is a naked and open daylight.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.