"If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten"

-- Marion Woodman

#Mother Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Jobs Quotes

“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.”
“I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.”
“If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner”
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”
“I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.”

Source : "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”
“Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.”
“I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.”

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