"One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy"

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Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.40, Conari Press

Sue Thoele

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“What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”
“What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?”

Source : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.”
“Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right”
“When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to get the shots because I was still very much in the role of the photographer. Then the next time I had this little digital camera and their response to me would be completely different - I was a friend and I got new kinds of pictures. I was always treading a line between photographer and friend.”
“In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.”
“The morning is like the inside of a snow-apple.”

Source : Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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