"If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in."

-- Emma Forrest

#Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes #Madness Quotes

“What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.”
“if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.”

Source : Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.33, Open Road Media
“If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?”
“My fear is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.”

Source : Source: www.smh.com.au
“Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (1923). “The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today”
“I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.”
“What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.”
“No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.”

Source : R.K. Narayan (2001). “The Writerly Life: Selected Non-fiction”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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