"There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias."

-- Phyllis Rose

#Acceptance Quotes #Neutrality Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth Iâ€™d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
“I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.”

Source : "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.
“Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.”
“Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.”
“Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 2, 2017
“I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my ***** down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.”

Source : "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.
“It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.”
“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”

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