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It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5) ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude? ↗

— Ken Kesey

#check #christian #consciousness #dude #falls

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#dead #part #rendezvous #scene #thing

You've gotta know what death is to know life! ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#gotta #know #life #you

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored. ↗

— Kesha

#big #clothes #cool #desert #died

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out. ↗

— Hank Ketcham

#burn #business #clearly #himself #humor

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#between #difference #great #know #knowing

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#asking #because #course #determines #doctor

In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#destruction #picturesque #prague #rubble #solace

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. ↗

— Ellen Key

#educator #effects #future #how #light