"I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy..."

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Laurie Halse Anderson

#Reading Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
“It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.”
“I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.”
“Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?”
“Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.31, Bantam
“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
“I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.”
“I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.”

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