"Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime."

-- Empress Dowager Cixi

#Suffering Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“Kiss the blackest part of my behind.”
“It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.”
“I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.”
“I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.”

Source : "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". BAFTA Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.
“Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.”
“Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.12, North Atlantic Books
“The world is an orphanage for grownups”
“However good or bad a situation is, it will change.”

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