"Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins."

-- J. C. Ryle

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.”
“Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?”
“The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.”
“Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.”
“Iâ€™m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else Iâ€™m a tired person.”
“Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.”
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent you learn, in a word, femininity.”

Source : "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.
“You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.”

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