"Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst."

-- Irshad Manji

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Isms Quotes

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.”
“Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.”
“I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.”
“Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.”
“The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.”
“There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'”
“We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.”

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