"I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment."

-- Dawna Markova

#Self Esteem Quotes #Punishment Quotes #People Quotes

“I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.”
“It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.”

Source : Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.9, Harper Collins
“Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.”
“We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.”
“I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.”
“Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.”
“Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.”
“The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.”

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