"Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources."

-- Andrew Solomon

#Acceptance Quotes #Identity Quotes #Way Quotes

“Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didnâ€™t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didnâ€™t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.”
“The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.”
“All the things that most people hate about traveling -- the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi -- are warm reminders that I'm home.”
“Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.”
“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556
“I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.”
“I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.”

Source : "I just joined a social network that ships Harry styles and Louis Tomlinson" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2015.
“I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.”

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