"If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life."

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Source : Astrid Lindgren's acceptance speech for The Right Livelihood Award, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1994.

Astrid Lindgren

#Sadness Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Accomplished Quotes

“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.”
“My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.”
“This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.”
“Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
“In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.”
“I'm sick of environmentalism.”
“Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.”
“Don't die before your dead! Don't let anything stand in your way of God's appointed purpose for your life.”

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