“ It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil)… Iris Murdoch
“ I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. Roger Zelazny
“ For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are l… Hermann Hesse
“ My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. Cheryl Strayed
“ The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top. O. J. Simpson
“ The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw
“ It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. Lady Bird Johnson
“ Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. Adrienne Rich
“ There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. Margaret Mead
“ When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor
