"We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel."

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Source : Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”

Sam Keen

“History does not belong to us; we belong to it.”

Source : Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.36, MIT Press
“A star on earth - a star in heaven.”
“I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.”
“When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.”
“I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.”
“I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.”
“I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.”
“Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.”

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