"Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Loneliness Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Ability Quotes

“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1999). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
“Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilitiesâ€”
“How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.”
“To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.”
“And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.”
“It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.”
“Human requirements are the inspiration for art.”
“There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.”

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