Otherness Quotes (page 155)

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• beautiful
• beauty
• forming

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form. Dorothy Allison

• library
• understanding
• eating

A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that. Bertrand Russell

• father
• dance
• she

She told me that every other step was just for me.'But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy. Sherman Alexie

• real
• look
• other

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people. Augusten Burroughs

• to live
• using people
• use

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. L. M. Montgomery

• misunderstanding
• evening
• attention

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• fighting
• war
• die

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. Plutarch

• words
• you me
• usefulness

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. Samuel Beckett

• self
• expectation
• evening

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. Julia Cameron

• mind
• mindfulness
• others

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. Og Mandino

• ocean
• peace
• manly

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man Jules Verne

• personality
• personal
• legal

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. Robert M. Pirsig

• greatness
• hope
• friends

I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• time
• earth
• timely

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago? Guy de Maupassant

• thinking
• may
• think

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. George Eliot