"Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen."

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Source : Suzanne Braun Levine (2011). “The Woman's Guide to Second Adulthood: Inventing the Rest of Our Lives”, p.134, A&C Black

Suzanne Braun Levine

#Difficulty Quotes

“Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.”

Source : Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”
“When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.”

Source : "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.
“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?”

Source : Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.20, Penguin
“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”
“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.”
“One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what youâ€™re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?”

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