"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility."

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Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.44, Wordsworth Editions

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Passion Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can give it to another. When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas.”

Source : Dr. Tae Yun Kim (2011). “Seven Steps to Inner Power”, p.43, Jung SuWon
“I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an Arab American or a Palestinian or Muslim or a doctor with or without borders and there's really no meaningful entry into those hyphenations.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.”
“It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.”
“If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.”
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

Source : "Stranger in the Village". Essay by James A. Baldwin, first published in Harper's Magazine (1953), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), and later quoted in "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.
“I try to be honest and I keep moving.”
“For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.”

Source : PunkTv Interview, March 26, 2006.

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