"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."

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Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

Max Lerner

#Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Broken Heart Quotes

“As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in Americaâ€¦.”

Source : "The Long Memory". CD by Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels, 1996.
“Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.”
“We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.”
“For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was sick, she wouldn't do her hair or her makeup, and she just looked terrible. But when she got on medication and she was happy, she would go to the beauty parlor and wear makeup. So I really associate glamour with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great. It's a celebration of loving yourself, and the whole ritual of it is so great.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.
“[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.”
“There is no plan B for passion”
“God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.”

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