"Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies."

-- Edgar Degas

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.”
“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken fromus without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”

Source : Speech as president of a national convention of the Woman's National Loyal League, May 14, 1863.
“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
“If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a clichÃ© or an alcoholic.”

Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam
“What's important is to remain human.”
“It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.”
“To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast”
“IKEA is not completely perfect. It irritates me to hear it said that IKEA is the best company in the world. We are going the right way to becoming it but we are not there yet.”

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