"The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does"

-- Maya Angelou

#Past Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.”
“War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.”
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”
“We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve”
“Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.”

Source : "Shay Mitchell Exclusive Interview". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 26, 2012.
“What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.”
“Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. Itâ€™s the same for you. Itâ€™s the same for everyone.”
“Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.”

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