"It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed."

-- Anne Lamott

#People Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #World Quotes

“I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.”
“The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.”
“For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.”
“Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.”

Source : Cornelia Meigs (1988). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”
“Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.”
“In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.”
“I don't have any shame.”
“Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.”

Source : "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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