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It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings? much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. George Eliot
I would ask my teacher a question," Yehonala said."Ask," Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side."When may I paint a picture of my own?" Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. "When I can no longer command you. Pearl S. Buck
Anne Frank quote: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one..."
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. Anne Frank
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with... Ivan Goncharov
It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman. Barbara Taylor Bradford
Aldous Huxley quote: "I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,"..."
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. Aldous Huxley
And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care. I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room... Barack Obama
Indira Gandhi quote: "A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on..."
A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other. Indira Gandhi
Philip Stanhope quote: "Keep your own secret, and get out other people's."
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Philip Stanhope
Interpreting myself, I always read. Myself into my books. I clearly need. Some help. But all who climb on their own way. Carry my image, too, into the breaking day. Friedrich Nietzsche
As much as I want you and want to be with you and part of you, I can't tear myself away from the realness of my responsibilities. If you force me, physically or mentally, to go with you, as I said earlier, I cannot fight that. I don't have the strength, given my feelings for you. In spite of what I said about not taking the road away from you, I'd go because of my own selfish wanting of you. But please don't make me. Don't make me give this up, my responsibilities. I cannot do that and live... Robert James Waller
The most ordinary faces of men, and women? my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her Emily Bronte
People everywhere, including the United States, are still prone to accept stereotypes, eager to believe what we want to believe (for example, on global warming) and anxious to await while others take the lead--seeking in vain to avoid both responsibility and risk. When trouble arises among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a suit to be worn in fine weather but... Madeleine Albright
The pursuit of happiness is more elusive, it is life long and not goal-centered. Whant you are pusuing is meaning - a meaningful life. The fate the draw that is yours and it isn't fixed, but changing the course of the stream thats going to take a lot of energy. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when your realize that being barely alive , on your own terms, is better then living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. The pursuit isn't all... Jeanette Winterson
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Love is when another persons happiness is essential to your own."
Love is when another persons happiness is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein

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