Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past (Shannon L. Alder)
Change, I’ve come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable (Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood)
High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability (Ben Bernanke)
When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. (Victoria Lamb)
Why does she even bother sleeping?” I heard Elizabeth ask quietly. “You’d think by now she’d stop trying. We don’t need it.”I paused, waiting to hear Miaka’s response. “She must have a really wonderful dream often enough to make the bad ones worth it (Kiera Cass, The Siren)
The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted. (Dada Bhagwan)
You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If you don’t exist, then for you nothing exists (Debasish Mridha)
Life is beautiful, so celebrate it like the gift that it is (Mensah Oteh)
No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts (Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin’s Continuous Novel)