"My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world."

-- Daphne Merkin

#Mother Quotes #Home Quotes #World Quotes

“Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?”
“Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.”
“If you want different results, do not do the same things.”
“Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.”

Source : Mary Ann Woodward, Edgar Cayce (1972). “Edgar Cayce's Story of Karma: Selections, Arrangement and Comments”
“Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?”
“While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.”
“It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.”
“Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.”

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