"You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Hate Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Every empire eventually falls.”
“Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I donâ€™t like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.”
“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”

Source : "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.
“Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?”
“It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.”
“There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in your body, a place where your "gut feelings" reside. You can communicate with it by silently talking to it, making requests, or asking questions. Then relax, don't think too hard with your mind, and be open to receiving answers. They are usually very simple and relate to the present moment, not the past or the future, and they feel right.”

Source : Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.12, New World Library
“You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.”
“Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!”

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