"In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead"

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Sleep Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.”
“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?”
“That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”

Source : Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963
“... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
“Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.”
“I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.”

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.80, New York : Howe & Bates
“I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.”
“I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.”

Source : James Lane Allen (2005). “The Choir Invisible”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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