"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

-- Rita Mae Brown

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes

“I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.”
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
“You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”
“I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.”
“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”

Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2014). “Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness”, p.154, Algonquin Books
“He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.”

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