"When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

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Source : "I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?" by Ellen Page, www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2010.

Ellen Page

#Growing Up Quotes #Space Quotes #People Quotes

“Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars....”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016
“The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning pointâ€”for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”
“The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.”
“Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.”
“Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.”
“If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.”
“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
“When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.”

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