"I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map."

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Source : George Ella Lyon (2012). “Holding On to Zoe”, p.9, Macmillan

George Ella Lyon

#People Quotes #Maps Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.”
“I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.”

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“I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace.”
“Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.”
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more”
“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”
“Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.”
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”

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