"I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was."

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Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2012). “The Peach Keeper”, p.122, Hachette UK

Sarah Addison Allen

#Freedom Quotes #Needed Quotes

“When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.”
“Put on the company hat.”
“My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”
“The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.”

Source : Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“If you want God to act SUDDENLY then youâ€™re gonna have to pursue him PATIENTLY!”
“It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.”
“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
“A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.”

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