"I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap."

-- Fay Weldon

#Lying Quotes #Congratulations Quotes #School Quotes

“We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.”
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”
“I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.”
“I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.”
“Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.”
“It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.”
“As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers
“Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.”

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