Bernadette Roberts Quotes

...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.

Bernadette Roberts

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Believe
  • See

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Obstacles

• No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Attention
  • Woman
  • Acting

• Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • World
  • Music
  • Emotion

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Change

• Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Important
  • Difference
  • Danvers

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice — everywhere open to the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Find
  • Prejudice

• In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Room

• Cookies at both of them. The cookies are probably better at Letterman though.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Cookies
  • Letterman

• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Care
  • Criticism

• True love is the parent of humility.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Love
  • True
  • For Her

• "Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.

  

  Dara O Briain
  • Nice
  • Years
  • Stuff

• As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

  

  Samuel Wilson
  • Decisions
  • Position
  • Population

• ...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
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