"What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?"

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Insane Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.”
“A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.”
“You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody”

Source : Les Giblin (1956). “How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People”, p.32, Les Giblin Books
“I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.”
“The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. â€˜They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring,”
“Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.”
“Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?”
“Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.78, Vintage Canada

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