"When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering."

-- Brenda Shoshanna

#Pain Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.”

Source : George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178
“We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.”
“For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.”
“The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.”
“Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.”

Source : Todd Gitlin (2013). “The Intellectuals and the Flag: Reclaiming the American Liberal Tradition”, p.28, Columbia University Press
“That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.”
“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”

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