Aurora Levins Morales Quotes

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

Aurora Levins Morales

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• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

  

  William Gibson
  • Culture
  • Chinese
  • Instant

• To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Society
  • Girls
  • Size

• Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Hide
  • Cupcakes
  • Pantry

• The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that somewhat.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Idea
  • Hanging
  • African

• I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wife

• This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Theory
  • Destruction
  • Starvation

• Our cricket is too gentle - all of it.

  

  Alec Stewart
  • Cricket
  • Gentle

• For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Resolutions

• Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Important
  • Love
  • Never

• It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Song
  • Mean
  • Bugs

• ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • World
  • Mind
  • Light

• Obsession with sensual pleasures, holding firmly to sensual pleasures that khattiyas fight with khattiyas, brahmins with brahmins, and householders with householders.” “Why is it, Master Kaccāna, that ascetics fight with ascetics?” “It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Fight
  • Obsession
  • Pleasures

• For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Excellence
  • Presence
  • Required

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Respect
  • Yourself
  • Content

• What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

  

  Aurora Levins Morales
  • Trauma
  • Survived
  • Required