"One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection."

-- Madeleine M. Kunin

#Life Quotes #Protection Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.”
“I wish I wasn't so fragile / 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle”
“Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse usâ€“to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.327, A&C Black
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”
“I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.”
“Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.”

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