"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

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Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

Joan Didion

#Life Quotes #Respect Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”
“If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.”
“Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.”
“I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.”
“It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.”
“True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.”
“Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."”
“We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.”

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