"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person."

-- Alice Miller

#Strong Quotes #Believe Quotes #Simple Quotes

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”

Source : Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One”, p.29, Dell
“It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.”
“The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.”
“I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.”
“When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.
“Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception.”
“I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.”
“All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.”

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