"I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American."

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Lynne Tillman

#World Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other.”

Source : "'Aviator' lands Golden Globe glory". www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.
“One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.”
“You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.”
“Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.”
“The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!”

Source : Andre Norton (2015). “Wraiths of Time”, p.13, Open Road Media
“It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.”
“The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is freeâ€”everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differentlyâ€”until you have given the whole world its freedomâ€”youâ€™ll never have your freedom.”

Source : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.56, Sounds True
“If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.”

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