"When you donâ€™t have many friends and you donâ€™t have a social life youâ€™re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. Thereâ€™s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like youâ€™re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships."

-- Tim Burton

#People Quotes #Kind Quotes #Like You Quotes

“Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.”
“Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press
“That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. â€œNow old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed.”
“You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.”
“You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.”
“Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.”
“Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.”
“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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