"Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going."

-- Akhenaton

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“A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.”

Source : "Memoirs" by Pierre Trudeau, (Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366), 1993.
“I'll never give up my Dior mascara.”
“Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.”
“If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.”
“The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.”
“From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.”

Source : Simon Schama (2004). “Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution”, p.728, Penguin UK
“Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
“The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.”

Source : Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.99, Penguin

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