"I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person."

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Source : "Lessons On Blindness, 'For The Benefit Of Those Who See'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www-s4.npr.org. January 12, 2014.

Rosemary Mahoney

#Self Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Blind Quotes

“Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb, Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
“The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.”
“Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.”
“We live in a world where action is what counts.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.”
“Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.”
“If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.”

Source : Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press
“Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.”

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