"I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite."

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Source : Twitter post from Jan 15, 2013

Shane Koyczan

#Opposites Quotes #Ease Quotes #Love Myself Quotes

“Soul, to me, means â€œembodied essence,â€ when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about... The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.”
“But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.195, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.”
“I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.”
“Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.”
“We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody stuck to those laws, but we were cognizant of the importance of trying to live up to that code.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.”
“Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.”

Source : Thomas Lickona (2012). “Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years”, p.84, Bantam

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