"I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager."

-- Clara Hughes

#Teenager Quotes #Exaggeration Quotes

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
“I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.”
“A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.”
“Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.”
“In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
“There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.”

Source : Graham Hancock (2015). “The Divine Spark: Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization”, p.8, Hay House, Inc
“The thing that impressed me then as now about New Yorkâ€¦ was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorantâ€¦ the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.”
“Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.”

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