"If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading."

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#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.”
“I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.”
“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.”
“Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.”
“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.37, Serpent's Tail
“There is the sky, which is all men's together.”
“We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.”
“Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.”

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