"For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself. I am someone deeply motivated by extremes - the poles not only become home for me, but they also become, strangely, my comfort zones."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Porochista Khakpour

#Real Quotes #Home Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.”
“Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.”
“The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can”
“Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.”
“Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.”

Source : Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.7, Routledge
“Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”
“Linear thinking is patriarchal.”
“Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"”

Source : Song: Love Like Crazy, Album: Love Like Crazy, 2010

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