"You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt."

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Source : "How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

Andrew Solomon

#Hurt Quotes #Self Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”
“What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com
“The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
“The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have any memory of that but my mom has written evidence of it. I've always liked playing with words so when I was younger it had a lot more to do with rhyme and sounds.”
“We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.”
“I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.”
“We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership”

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