"No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you."

-- Victor Villasenor

#Light Quotes #Complaining Quotes #Reaching Quotes

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”
“it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors that the master is lesser than the slave.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 21: "The Prejudice Lingers On", 1971.
“War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.”

Source : Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”
“I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."”
“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Whites have traded their culture for power.”

Source : Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and Their Paths to Action”, p.117, Rowman & Littlefield
“Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.”
“Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.”

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