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If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life. — Anne Hathaway

No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness. That's easy. But how long will it last? — Frederick Lenz

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it. — Leslie A. Gordon

I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders. — David Douglas Duncan

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love. — Nhat Hanh

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest. — Mary Balogh

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. — Gladys Taber

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. — T.F. Hodge

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. — James Joyce

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities. — Robert Dallek

Woolf drew on her memories of her holidays in Cornwall for To the Lighthouse, which was conceived in part as an elegy on her parents. Her father was a vigorous walker and an Alpinist of some renown, a member of the Alpine Club and editor of the Alpine Journal from 1868 to 1872; he was the first person to climb the Schreckhorn in the Alps and he wrote on Alpine pleasures in The Playground of Europe (1871). By the time he married Julia Duckworth in 1878, however, a more sedentary Leslie Stephen was the established editor of the Cornhill Magazine, from which he later resigned to take up the editorship of the Dictionary of National Biography in 1882, the year of Woolf 's birth. Stephen laboured on this monumental Victorian enterprise until 1990, editing single-handed the first twenty-six volumes and writing well over 300 biographical entries. He also published numerous volumes of criticism, the most important of which were on eighteenth-century thought and literature. — Jane Goldman

She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately
a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks
a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die. — Henry Miller

There's nothing good... behind those tears. — Kentaro Yabuki

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers ... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. — Angela Carter