"Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!"

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Responsibility Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.”

Source : "Edward W Brooke, first black man to win popular election to US Senate, dies" by the Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2015.
“Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?”

Source : Grace Metalious (1956). “Peyton Place”, p.345, UPNE
“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...”

Source : "Junk". Book by Melvin Burgess, 1996.
“It is a Mormon truism that is current among us and we all accept it, that as man is God once was and as God is man may become. That does not signify that man will become God. I am sorry to say, and yet it is a truth, that not many men will become what God is, simply because they will not pay the price, because they are not willing to live up to the requirements; and still all men may, if they will, become what God is, but only those who are heirs of the celestial glory shall ever be possible candidates, to become what God is.”
“It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.”

Source : Rosario Castellanos (2010). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama”, p.356, University of Texas Press
“Superstars perform so naturally and so instinctively that they seem to be able to enter a pressure-packed situation that would terrify or freeze most people as if nothing matters. They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.”
“My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.”

Source : "Rainn Wilson Interview - THE ROCKER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 19, 2008.
“we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.”

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