Essence Atkins Quotes

I am very happy. Extremely, blissfully so. Even in my pain, I'm happy. I like crying. It makes me feel alive. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. Not that I'm welcoming tribulation, but I find that it is beneficial.

Essence Atkins

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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

Larry Bird
- Feeling
- Running
- Far
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Salman Rushdie
- Up
- World
- Change
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

Quincy Jones
- World
- School
- Greatest
I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

Dana Goodyear
- Long
- Traditions
- Culinary
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

Gabrielle Giffords
- Believe
- American
- Gun
Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

Abdullah II of Jordan
- Time
- World
- Work