"The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance."

-- Merle Shain

#Roles Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.”
“Most things get steadily worse.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr
“Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.”
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”
“Where there is money, there is fighting.”
“Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.”
“I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.”

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