"I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words."

-- Ani DiFranco

#Expression Quotes #Silence Quotes #Avoiding Quotes

“I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general”
“... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.”
“Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.”
“The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..) This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.”

Source : John C. Parkin (2010). “F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way”, p.105, Hay House, Inc
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”
“What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.”
“"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."”
“Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.”

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