"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."

-- Shirley MacLaine

#Single Quotes #Profound Quotes #Heartless Quotes

“I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesnâ€™t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasnâ€™t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.”
“Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.”
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
“So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.”

Source : Cicely Mary Barker (1991). “A Treasury of Flower Fairies”, Warne
“Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.”
“I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.”
“Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.”
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

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