"I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure."

-- Marina Abramovic

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.”
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.212, Broadway Books
“I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.”
“In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.”
“With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Dancing came easy to me.”
“Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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