Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• Liberation
• Rewrite
• Sleeping Beauty

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• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Art
  • Always
  • Blame

• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Me
  • Blame
  • Insecure

• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • History
  • Changed

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Blame
  • Enemies

• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Blame

• I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Chance
  • Rewrite
  • Finoshed

• What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Writing
  • Secret

• If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Blame
  • Lament

• The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Religious
  • Paradise

• Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Opportunity
  • Failure
  • Mistakes

• You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Home
  • Blame
  • Excellent

• I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Blame
  • British

• For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Virtue
  • Blame
  • Faults

• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Responsible
  • Blame
  • Salvation

• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • More
  • Theater

• I don't do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Crazy
  • Ideas
  • Comedic

• I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

  

  Vivica A. Fox

• All things in moderation, including moderation.

  

  Socrates
  • Things
  • Moderation
  • Including

• If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Work
  • Help
  • Respect

• If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Blame
  • Liberation
  • Rewrite