"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

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Source : Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

Norman Cousins

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“Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2010). “One Touch of Topaz”, p.59, Bantam
“People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”
“The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.”
“We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.”
“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”
“I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?”
“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”

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