"At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous"

-- Paula Danziger

#Age Quotes #Supportive Quotes #Awful Quotes

“The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.”

Source : Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“When anything is blocking my head or there's worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don't see the fear. You don't see the pain. You don't see thought. It's just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn't.”

Source : Vanity Fair Interview, August 2000.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
“To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.”
“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.”
“When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.”
“The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.”

Source : Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)”

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