"I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious."

-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Self Quotes #Self Conscious Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.”
“You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"”

Source : Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.242, Simon and Schuster
“There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”
“When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change... It will happen automatically and with grace.”

Source : Drunvalo Melchizedek (2010). “Serpent of Light: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949 to 2013”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com
“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage
“Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.”
“It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.”

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