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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Unicorns and rainbows exist because we want them to."
"What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake."
"He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few."
"The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves."
"It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart."
"I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves."
"Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human."
"Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself."
"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
"Give the people you love the best of yourself, not the worst."
"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."
"A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests."
"The only thing you have total control over is who you choose to be. Be the best you can be."
"Have a clear-cut plan on what you wish to improve, and seek opportunities to improve it. The more conscious and honest we can be about our shortcomings, the more strength we will have to improve them. We are going to train hard anyway, we are not going to sweat any more or less. It is simply imperative that the sweat is properly directed."
"Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom."
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
"Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential."
"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."
"I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others."
"Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence."
"Marriage cannot be a job as it has become."
"The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy."
"The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it. The immediate danger to humanity is that of total annihilation within a generation or two, not the failure of mankind to breed. A woman seeking alternative modes of life is no longer morally bound to pay her debt to nature."
"Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle, the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them."
"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."
"There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave."
"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
"You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while."
"Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share."
"They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me."
"There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self."
"It is only when your actions and words are aligned that you can achieve your true potential."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."
"As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is when they are presented as the real thing, covering unsightly blemishes, disguising a repulsive thing so that it is acceptable to the world that their function is deeply suspect. The women who dare not go out without their false eyelashes are in serious psychic trouble."
"Climb greater heights to obtain a new perspective."
"I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it."
"Although happiness is a state of being, it usually still requires some doing if it is to belasting in your life."
"Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today."
"On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown boys. Of the love of fellows they know nothing. They cannot love each other in this easy, innocent, spontaneous way because they cannot love themselves."
"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
"To be happy, you need to do the right thing for you, even when it feels like the hardest thing in the world."
"When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness."
"Most of the things you find yourself wanting will have little or no bearing on the happiness in your life."
"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."
"Learning from the past can help you move forward. Lingering in the past will only hold you back."
"The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife."
"Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics."
"Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them."
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