"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.”
“A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.”
“It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.”
“To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away”
“LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.”
“How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.”
“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”
“i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.”

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