The distinction between fear (a response to something proximate and present) and anxiety (a response to something anticipated and abstract)
– Freud
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Cross of Iron – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Love – Martin Luther King, Jr
“I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”
– Martin Luther King, Jr
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?…Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger…I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.”
– Muhammad Ali
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Salad – Unknown
“I’ve seen salad that can dress better then you.”
– Unknown
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Burns and flies – C. JoyBell C.
“They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can’t stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that’s a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!”
– C. JoyBell C.
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Normal – Matt Haig
“There are several billion versions of normal on this planet.”
– Matt Haig
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Reality- John Bradshaw
“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality. ”
– John Bradshaw
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A form of disguise – Mariella Frostrup
“I you look online what you get are anonymous trolls venting spleen and the sanitised, shiny, reconstructed lives of the Instagram generation. Neither polarity represents a realistic lifestyle choice and both are crude and empty forms of communication. It’s frightening to see how reduced our myriad forms of self expression have become. Online life gives little clue to what we’re feeling the moment we’re captured on photo and film – instead it’s a form of disguise. Our addiction to keeping up with the global Joneses is making us less capable of dealing with the cut and thrust of daily life. When real feelings get in the way of our desired “presence” – when a disagreement, a difference in ambitions, or an imbalance in a relationship appear – we simply sign out.”
– Mariella Frostrup
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This world – Horace Walpole
“This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
– Horace Walpole
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Make them laugh – Oscar Wilde
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Expiry date – J.K. Rowling
“I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
– J.K. Rowling
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Real obstacles – Bertrand Russell
“The real obstacles in life lie in the heart of man.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Depressed – Gabrielle Roth
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:
When did you stop dancing?
When did you stop singing?
When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?”
– Gabrielle Roth
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Certainty – Ajahn Chah
“If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer”
– Ajahn Chah