"I kind of look at what's on the T-shirts and I see another solution, which also worries me. I see "Just do it." "No fear." - this kind of suppressive response to the treacle that the culture tries to define for us as a meaningful life also blows up on you. "No fear" is not something that you should put on your shirt. How about "I can hold my fear and still connect with you"? Put that on your shirt. "It's okay to be me, with all of my history." Put that on your shirt."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Steven C. Hayes

#Meaningful Quotes #Blow Quotes #Worry Quotes

“He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.”
“Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”
“The day of the android has dawned.”

Source : "Are You An Android?". Science Fantasy #34, April 1959.
“I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.”
“There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.494, Open Road Media
“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.”
“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source : Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli
“I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.”

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