"When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, itâ€™s painful, and it certainly doesnâ€™t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride â€” thwarted pride."

-- Edward T Welch

#Self Esteem Quotes #Believe Quotes #Pride Quotes

“What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?”
“Safe?â€ said Mr. Beaver; â€œdonâ€™t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? â€˜Course he isnâ€™t safe. But heâ€™s good. Heâ€™s the King, I tell you.”
“I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thingâ€”at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets.”
“The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.”
“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”
“If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?”
“But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.”
“Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.”

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