"The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith."

-- Samuel Ruiz

#Identity Quotes #Favors Quotes #Western Culture Quotes

“Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there." "In the stars?" Bailey asks. "No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.203, Random House
“Winners are people with definite purpose in life.”
“I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.”
“One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.”
“Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.”
“Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.”
“I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.”
“That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.”

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