"Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion."

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Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

Joanne Greenberg

#Hate Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Joy Quotes

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”
“This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!”
“You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.”
“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.”
“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”
“You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.”
“And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our timeâ€”whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.”
“I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.”

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