"Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work."

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Marianne Williamson

#Heart Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”

Source : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
“Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.”

Source : June Jordan (2004). “Soulscript: a collection of African American poetry”, Broadway
“Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.”
“One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.”
“If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,”
“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”
“There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.”

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