"I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Cathy Freeman

#Motivational Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Track Quotes

“Abortion destroys self-worth and dignity. I bought into the idea that abortion was simply a matter of choice. I used abortion as birth control until after my fourth abortion. I felt inside that this action has to be wrong. I wish I had given more thought to the abortions I had. If just one person had said, 'Star, what you're doing is wrong,' it might have changed the destiny of my life.”
“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.”
“drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.”

Source : Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books
“She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.”
“Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.”

Source : Richard Maurice Bucke (2012). “Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.329, Courier Corporation
“Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.”
“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
“The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.”

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