"Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism."

-- Gloria Naylor

#Self Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Form Quotes

“As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.”
“"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings."”
“Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.”
“When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.”
“There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.”
“The secret of survival is a defective imagination.”
“Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.”
“Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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