"A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'"

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Source : "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

Beth Ditto

#Teacher Quotes #Grandma Quotes #Years Quotes

“I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked.”
“A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.”
“Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.”
“I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they're matte.”
“The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.”
“The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East”
“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.”
“The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.”

Source : Bert Hellinger (2002). “On Life and Other Paradoxes: Aphorisms and Little Stories from Bert Hellinger”, p.49, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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