"Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Letting Go Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.”
“I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.”
“No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.”
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
“I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.”
“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.”
“The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.”
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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