"A risk is a risk because it's avoidable."

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Source : Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.125, Penguin

Erica Bauermeister

“Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.”
“Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.”

Source : Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.48, Image
“I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.”

Source : Amy Schumer (2016). “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
“This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.”
“Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.”
“Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.”
“When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?”
“Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.”

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