Joanna Russ Quotes
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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Where there is love there is life.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
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'It is not right to want to die,' the Summoner said....'For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!''Death also is given us,' said the king.
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Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
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I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
