"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."

-- Ella Maillart

#Mind Quotes #Done Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.”
“Iâ€™m quite capable of walking,â€ she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short.â€ They are not!”
“Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.”
“Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.”
“There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.”
“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
“To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.”

Source : Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.22, Penguin
“As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.”

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