"When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under."

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Source : Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta

Rosellen Brown

#Life Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Your Children Quotes

“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.”
“When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.”
“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”
“Indifference is the strongest contempt.”
“I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.”
“Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.”
“The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.”
“Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you”

Source : "No, I am not a liberal - I believe that community comes before the individual" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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