"When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Dave Wakeling

#Buddhist Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital”
“When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.”
“Anyone got X-ray visiÃ³n?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?”
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
“I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.”

Source : "A Fashionable Life: Paloma Picasso" by Dana Thomas, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2010.
“I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.”

Source : Jane Grey SWISSHELM (1853). “Letters to Country Girls”, p.39
“The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.”
“Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.”

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