"To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves."

-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Want Quotes #Causes Quotes #Self Discovery Quotes

“When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.”
“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I can honestly say, I have the love of my life, and we have the most amazing children.”
“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”
“I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces”
“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”
“I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.”

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