"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."

-- Joan D. Vinge

#Sea Quotes #Age Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?”
“I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.”
“Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.”
“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
“When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.”
“I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!”

Source : "Shay Mitchell's Body Peace Advice!" by Macey Hall, Slide 2, www.seventeen.com. July 09, 2013.
“We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.”
“It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it”

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