"Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most."

-- Jean Vanier

#Pain Quotes #Past Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to cause harm, consisting, as it does, of the earnest wish of certain loving couples to join themselves to that very institution and thus to feel themselves, and be accepted as, full members of the American (and human) family.”
“What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?”
“She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing
“When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.”
“All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.”
“How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.”
“First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.”

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