"You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop."

-- Eva Jessye

#Courage Quotes #Past Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Many people have said many things. I can only say I did not consciously go after dance. It found me.”
“A great many of us have confused change with progress.”
“The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”
“Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.369, Princeton University Press
“All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.”
“With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.”
“The chief merit of language is clearness.”

Source : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”

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