"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Library Quotes #Sanctuary Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.”
“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
“One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.”
“The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”
“Tone can be as important as text.”
“The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.”
“The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.”
“But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.”

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