"In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education."

-- Holly Near

#Community Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“A wound thatâ€™d make an ordinary man unconscious, I wonâ€™t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I wonâ€™t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I canâ€™t allow myself to be ordinary!”
“If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.”

Source : Rockwell Kent (1969). “Rockwell Kent: the Early Years: Exhibition Bowdoin College, Museum of Art, 1969”
“Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 11, 2017
“Iâ€™ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.”
“I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.”
“I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.”
“I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.”
“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.”

Source : "Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945". Book by Melanie Klein, p. 173, 2002.

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