#very

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#everyone #exactly #fine #great #imperfect

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #any #art #ask #aware

All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction. ↗

— Merle A. Fossum

#survivorship #experience

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#champion #defend #every

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ↗

— William Feather

#based #behind #every #every man #man

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#been #everywhere #just #opportunities

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. ↗