"I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is."

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Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Stupid Quotes #Wish Quotes #May Quotes

“Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?”

Source : "Out of the Jungle" (1967); as quoted in "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, Wellingborough: Thorsons, (p. 31), 1985.
“Ah yes, the man or the crown. I'm afraid some can't tell the difference.”
“[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.”
“Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'”
“Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.”
“We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.”

Source : "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.
“It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.”
“Just close your eyes and enjoy the rollercoaster that is life :)”

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