"If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?"

-- Geneen Roth

#Today Quotes #Speak Quotes #Loveliness Quotes

“Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.”
“The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.”
“Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!”

Source : Henry Abbey, “Autumn Ballad”
“There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.”
“I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.”
“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?”
“Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.”

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