"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."

-- Alice Walker

#Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Personality Quotes

“Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.”
“I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.”
“I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228
“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

Source : "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.
“Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.”

Source : Carol J. Adams (1990). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Continuum
“I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.”
“You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.”

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