"While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance."

-- Diana Gabaldon

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“Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”
“My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.”

Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage
“Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?”
“I learned what love is from loving you.”
“Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.”
“We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think â€“ thought about is if only for a few seconds â€“ then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?”

Source : Karin Fossum (2008). “When The Devil Holds The Candle”, p.84, Random House
“What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?”
“Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people within society. The otherworldly strength that you see during a gut is the raging effort to forget and overcome the weakness of the self and is possible because it bears all the wrath and indignation of the people against oppression. Extraordinary acts performed with remarkable exaggeration encounter the human instinct to demolish one's own limitations, producing catharsis.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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