"I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that."

-- Demi Lovato

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“A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.”
“We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.”
“... for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.”
“As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.”
“Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.”
“I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.”
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?”
“Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.”

Source : Bernie Glassman, Taizan Maezumi (2016). “The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice collection”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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