"All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom."

-- George Monbiot

#Loss Quotes #World Quotes #Prestige Quotes

“I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.”
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan
“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. Â… It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”
“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”

Source : Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.”
“The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.”
“I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.”
“I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.”

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