"Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen."

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Source : Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.61, Hachette UK

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#Self Quotes #Wish Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.”
“Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.”
“Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.”
“As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.”
“Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.”
“A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.”

Source : Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”
“No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.”
“It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.”

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