"Stop shoulding on yourself"

-- Albert Ellis

“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
“A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn't think I could do it but he said, "You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you."”

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“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013
“America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.”
“People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.”
“It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.”
“People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.”
“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”

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