"Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul."

-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Believe Quotes #Soul Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.”
“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.”
“I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.”
“Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves â€” are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.”
“If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.”
“Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.”
“The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the purer and richer blood of the blacks, they will die out and wither away in unprolific skinniness.”
“Live in the past, but don't remember too much.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (2001). “Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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