"Conscience: self-esteem with a halo."

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Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

#Self Esteem Quotes #Halos Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.”
“The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.”
“There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.”

Source : "Inside the Jockeys' Room with Gary and Chantal". America's Best Racing Interview, www.americasbestracing.net. January 24, 2014.
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
“I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.”
“In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El NiÃ±o Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.”
“Every time I embrace a black woman Iâ€™m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Iâ€™m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of deathâ€¦. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
“Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.”

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