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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I believe it is the responsibility of each of us to pass on whatever we have learned in our time here. If I reach enlightenment after meditating in a cave for 10 years, but do not pass on this teaching and it dies with me, this was a wasted life. I believe we are here to help one another, and each of us has a unique wisdom that we should do our best to convey to others."
"I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves."
"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
"So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?"
"Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish."
"The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum."
"There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind."
"Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise."
"When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else."
"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."
"Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?"
"But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true."
"The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
"Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman, 'What have I done to deserve this?' reveals at once the false emotional economy that she has been following."
"Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home."
"In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate it, just as they are encouraged to develop competitive and aggressive instincts, women suppress it, just as they suppress all the aspects of their vigour and libido."
"Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield."
"The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles."
"A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not."
"Find a way to express your gratitude for the wealth and abundance in your life."
"The only person who can take responsibility for your happiness is you."
"I yearn to taste my desire on your lips."
"Your happiness is in direct proportion to the amount you serve others."
"Intensity of connection,Depth of emotion,Unified thoughts,No doubts in the significance of you."
"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."
"She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared,So she stopped,She was crushed,Stiff & lifeless,Like everything else."
"Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'."
"Self-pity never leads to happiness. Remind yourself that the situation may not be ideal, but it's rarely the worst that could ever happen."
"Examine your self-talk. Never speak to yourself more harshly than you would to a small child."
"When you decide to be the best you can be, don't be surprised if the circle of people you want to spend your time with becomes smaller."
"Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear"."
"Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down,"he said."Open your eyes."
"You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed."
"Your expectations determine your experience. Expect the best from life and you will usually get it."
"When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth."
"She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment."
"If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for."
"Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams and believe in your right to achieve your dreams."
"May I be awoken by the thunder of Zeus & touched by his lighting. It only need strike once. Once is enough to ignite the soul with purpose."
"Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back, lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins."
"This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep. And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe."
"Be generous with your time and energy. The harder it is to give, the more the other person deserves it."
"I want to feel intoxicated from inhaling the scent of you."
"The immortal gods, the deities will rise, they will fall but none will live beyond the wall. Prometheus, knows love & saves them all."
"You make me want to be a better than I am today."
"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."
"I can resist everything but the temptation of you."
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