Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Evelyn Yu Yu Swe – Founder of Myanmar Women’s Self-Defense Center

“It’s not just about getting beat up and standing back up; it’s about getting beat up, learning from it, and doing something different to make it next time. It’s kind of like boxing. You get beat up and you put on your guard next time so you won’t get beat up.”

Robert “Bob” Nesta Marley OM – Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

Albert Einstein – German-American scientist

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

Anaïs Nin – French-American, writer and diarist

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Dr Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel) – American author

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

Thomas A. Edison – American inventor, scientist and businessman

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Allen Saunders – American writer, journalist and cartoonist

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”

Oscar Wilde – Irish poet and playwright

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

H. Jackson Brown Jr. – American author

 “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So...

Maya Angelou – American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist

“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...