"Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial."

-- Lisa See

#Writing Quotes #Ungrateful Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
“I don't think it's that bad, I mean, I love people following me around and helping me do stuff.”
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre....”
“It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.”

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“The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.”
“The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.”
“Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.”

Source : Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.161, Hay House, Inc
“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

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