"We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these othersâ€”our parents, for instanceâ€”and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live."

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Source : Charles Taylor (1995). “Philosophical Arguments”, p.230, Harvard University Press

Charles Taylor

#Struggle Quotes #Long Quotes #Parent Quotes

“My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.”
“Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.”
“I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.”

Source : "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.
“To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.”
“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”
“The willow tree plays the water like a harp.”
“During war, the laws are silent.”
“Do something you love and people will love you for it.”

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