"Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events"

-- Michel Faber

#Events Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.35, Basic Books
“You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.”
“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”

Source : "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization". Book by Jawara D. King, p. 20, 2010.
“This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.”
“In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...”
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“I had a mom and a pop who kept telling me that I was wonderful at a very early age. So when someone said to me, "Oh, you're stuck up. Who do you think you are?" I'd say, "I know who I am, and I don't mind being stuck up".”

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