"I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation."

-- Susan Sontag

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Transformation Quotes

“The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.”
“Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.”
“surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain”
“Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.”

Source : J. Christopher Herold (2016). “Bonaparte In Egypt [Illustrated Edition]”, p.559, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.”

Source : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.”
“Never mind what my name is,â€ the man said. â€œNo one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.”

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