"In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Pain Quotes #Blood Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith, but he incites to the unbelief, and then imposes on those whose faith he has undermined his own conception of the world, of morality and of life. He is engaged in his historic mission, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.
“You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.”
“Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.”
“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
“We donâ€™t have enough young, female antiheroes. We donâ€™t accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men,”
“You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2014

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