"Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity"

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Aleksandar Hemon

#Self Quotes #Talking Quotes #Pity Quotes

“Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.”
“But God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man. You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God. When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.”
“The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.”
“It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then we try not only to hide it from others, but we also try to hide it from ourselves.”
“And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.”
“As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.”
“I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.”
“What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.”

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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