"What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?"

-- Oriah Dreamer

#What If Quotes #Want Quotes #Authenticity Quotes

“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
“Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.”
“Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.”
“What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.”
“As it is now, decades after 1965, the people of Indonesia have no clue about any other system except their own, or about true democracy.”
“People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.”
“I knew style and content went hand in hand.”

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