"We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek."

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Source : Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK

Elizabeth Goudge

#Pride Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Self Quotes

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”
“All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.”
“[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.”
“What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.”
“The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.”

Source : Medical Nemesis
“I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.”
“Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.”
“People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.”

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