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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.


Elbert Hubbard


#being #criticism #endure #final #final proof

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.


Milan Kundera


#winning

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property


Gary L. Francione


#abolitionist #ahimsa #ethical #francione #moral-imperative

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.


Sofia Kovalevskaya


#impossible #mathematician #poet #soul #without

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)


Jean-Yves Leloup


#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.


Alice Walker


#been #being #byproduct #come #fairly

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.


Criss Jami


#discernment #equality #geniune #human #human-being

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.


Gertrude Stein


#careful #everybody #knows #occupied #over

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.


Freya Stark


#almost #always #being #comfort #great

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.


John Hughes


#freaks #normalcy #bizarre






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