"True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Flower Quotes #Fall Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”

Source : Mary Higgins Clark (2000). “Loves Music, Loves To Dance”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
“We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”

Source : Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage
“Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.”
“All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.”
“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.”
“Some guys just slip under the radar.”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.”

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