"Expression is never helped by suppression."

-- Ming-Dao Deng

#Expression Quotes #Feel Good Quotes #Suppression Quotes

“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”
“Does this boat go to Europe, France?”
“Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change”
“Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.”
“The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (2016). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.104, Hachette UK
“...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfâ€”be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himselfâ€”by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to loveâ€”the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”
“Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.”
“Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.”

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