"That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Hate Quotes #Love Yourself Quotes #And Love Quotes

“I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

Source : "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
“I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.”
“Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.”

Source : Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation
“You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.”
“Man is the inventor of stupidity.”
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”
“... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them...”

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