"If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Moving Quotes #Pedestal Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.”
“Itâ€™s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problemâ€¦Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.”
“Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.”
“The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.”
“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
“I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.”
“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.”
“I am a part of all that I have met.”

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