"The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Self Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.”
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

Source : "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.
“I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.”

Source : "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.
“A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.”

Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.18, Harper Collins
“It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye”
“I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.”
“Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?”

Source : "Other Worlds". Book by Paul Davies, 1980.

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