Yet I’ve found that the people who are the happiest are the ones who learn best how to feel. It
“housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.… The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand worlds within one.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand worlds within one. And translation – a necessary endeavour, however futile, to move between them.”
― Babel
― Babel
“There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you—that both are inherently unfeminist. I don’t agree. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.”
― Eligible
― Eligible
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