"Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on."

-- Audre Lorde

#Self Quotes #Care Quotes #Indulgence Quotes

“Don't accept the excuse of complexity.”
“I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before itâ€™s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I donâ€™t have a clue what theyâ€™re on about.”
“Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.”
“The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.”
“I need to broaden my horizons.”
“God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he is averting their evil works that so plague God's children and mankind in general. When he maims and kills cultists and theological liberals, he prevents the spread of heretical doctrine that damns souls...God's judgment - not his favor - leads the world to righteousness. We should petition God's judgment on the wicked because judgment is a form of grace.”
“I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.”
“Abraham Lincoln did not contend that his actions were immune from Congressional correction; on the contrary, he specifically said he was acting beyond the present provisions in the expectation that congress would retroactively approve, which they did. He did not say anything like Richard Nixon: if the president does it is legal.”

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