"I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Ingrid Betancourt

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Limits Quotes

“I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2006). “Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived”, p.9, Penguin UK
“My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.”
“Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.”
“It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.”
“We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.”
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.”
“When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'”

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