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“I've also represented people who have committed terrible crimes but nonetheless struggle to recover and to find redemption. I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity - seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.
Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. My work with the poor and incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. Finally, I've come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's never to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and - perhaps - we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
“I've always admired the natural enthusiasm for life that children have. It inspires me to keep that same energy within me as I age.”
“I've always, always wanted to become a person who is not a coward.”
Source: ちはやふる 26 [Chihayafuru 26]
“I’ve always associated reading and writing with sex.”
Source: The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
“I've always been 15 to 20 years ahead. As one of the first publishers to publish digitally in 2000 to become a digital publishing pioneer, before the Kindle and the height of digital book publishing in 2012-2015; I had digital books published, was one of the first on Amazon as an independent publisher, and became a beta for them years later. 20 Years before streaming networks like Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu became the giants that they are in streaming; I envisioned a digital library of films and videos (even wrote about one in a scenario in my contemporary fiction book Loving Summer years later), which now became a form of streaming on-demand video today. This all comes from vision, being able to see far ahead through imagination as well as real evidence. When you can see this; you are truly blessed and gifted." Kailin Gow, Futurist, STEM Books Bestselling Award-winning Author and Publisher”
“I've always been a deep sea diver
Played by my own rules in life
Never understood all the hype
Behind wanting to be a certain type”
Source: A Candid Aim
“I’ve always been a forearm girl — a man rolling his shirt to the elbows is basically foreplay for me — and it’s a crime that’s such nice ones are wasted on him.”
“I've always been a high flyer. Literally. I fly so high I pass out quite frequently. It's the only thing that brings me back down to earth. - The Malwatch”
“I've always been a pantser when I write. Planning detail with what happens at every turn isn't me. I'm not a plotter. I like to make the characters and turn them loose in the scenario and the world I create for them.”
“I’ve always been a person who has believed in the love and in the power of love. It occurred to me that it is an essence which connects to the hearts of people, to the hearts of the beasts and to the One-Above-All.……
.…………. Sometimes, if people are dysfunctional together, they will have dysfunctional families and kids who are dysfunctional to the society, each in a unique disorderly way. Love, is the key to disorder and anarchy as it emanates from truth and then further emanates commitment, care, respect and sacrifice. It has the powers over emotions of a human and their mindset and it has been bringing changes to the lives of people. The problem of dysfunctional relationships is the connection is based upon truths which are not mutually established. To make a relationship functional is very much possible and is as essential to being human as the fact that we are very intelligent beings. A love based on truth will always shine brighter in any dark night. But who wants a love like that? And who dares to love as such? All that forever? Would you dare?.………….
……. All that and many things more but not anymore.
I now believe that only love cannot make anyone do everything. Neither everything is dearly loved nor it is reciprocated gracefully. Some loves fall away as the leaves of the autumn; some fires are washed by little waters; and some boats never make it to the shore.
If love is truly your goal and the goal of your love is love itself then the pillars of love shall always remain true. Be good to the people you meet. And be good to those who hurt you as well. Someday, sometime, it will make sense to everyone.”
“I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser...any other behavior might encourage a repeat performance”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental instability, went back to school, made a go of it, entered a Ph.D. program in nineteenth-century British literature, sat in the front row, took notes assiduously, bought a pair of horn-rims, and quit on the eve of my comprehensive exams. I got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit eating red meat. I quit jobs: digging graves, pumping gas, selling insurance, showing pornographic films in an art theater in Boston. When I was nineteen I made frantic love to a pinch-faced, sack-bosomed girl I'd known from high school. She got pregnant. I quit town.”
“I’ve always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say ‘selves.’because the fact is, I’ve never, even as a child, felt I’m only one self, only one person. I’ve always felt I’m quite a few more than one. For example, there’s my jokey self, there’s my morose and fed-up self,there’s my lewd and disgusting self. There’s my clever-clogs self, and my fading-violet-who-cant-make-up-her-mind-about-anything self. There’s my untidy-clothes-everywhere-all-over-my-room self, and my manically tidy self when I want my room to be minimalist and Zen to the nth degree. There’s my confidant, arrogant self and my polite and reasonable and good listener self. There’s my self-righteous self and my wickedly bad self, my flaky self and my bsentimental self. There are selfs I like and selfs I don’t like.there’s my little-girl selfnwhonlikes to play silly games and there’s my old-woman self when I’m quite sure I’m eighty and edging towards geriatric.
The self I show in action at any moment depends on where I am, who I’m with, the circumstances of the situation and the mood I’m in.”
Source: This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.”
Source: Chris-In-The-Morning: Love, Life, and the Whole Karmic Enchilada
“I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.”
Source: Afterparty
“I've always been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“I've always been afraid that love isn't real. So I watched movies that assured me that there can be happy endings and shit.”
Source: Marrow
“I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited
“I’ve always been dope, just not always self aware.”
“I’ve always been drawn to the night. It’s like a therapist you don’t have to pay.”
Source: Silence in the Basement
“I’ve always been enchanted by the show of electrical abstractions, within one’s mind; so colourful, myriad and seemingly contingent, which appear, sparkle, glimmer and dissolve into that infinite gloom which one is trying to vanquish with sleep.”
Source: Hot Pink Peach
“I’ve always been fully exposed and had to walk in a line filled with sharp curves from disappointment to disappointment.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.”
Source: I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead
“I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.”
“I’ve always been like that—if I’m not pushed to the brink, I won’t move.”
Source: Kitchen
“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.”
Source: How High We Go in the Dark
“I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.”
“I’ve always been so full of melancholy. But I’ve realized it’s because I’m alive. I’m open. I feel. I carry all things in my heart and sometimes I mistake the weight of it for heaviness when it’s really fullness.”
“I've always been so nervous during class that I'd mess up...
... and when I messed up, I'd get lost and start panicking. But today when I backed Soma up I was able to do everything right.
So it feels like...
maybe I've gained a little confidence in myself.
Just a little. And that's exciting to me.
B-but, um! A-all the credit goes to Soma, now. I ain't that good. If he hadn't been tellin' me what ta do, I'da been lost!"
"Don't sell yourself short. I never would've gotten that dish together if you hadn't found all those ingredients in the mountains. You did a great job with cooking them up too."
"He's right. You can do whatever you put your mind to. Have some confidence in yourself...
Okay?"
I want to stay with everyone longer.
I want to get better at cooking.
I won't give up.
I'm going to keep trying my hardest!”
Source: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 3
“I’ve always been somewhat isolated. I’ve borne my isolation with me
through the crowd as the snail bears its house. For some people isolation isn’t a
circumstance in which they find themselves, it’s an innate characteristic. And
through this act my isolation is likely to increase; no matter how it ends, whether
badly or well, for me the “punishment” will be solitary confinement for life.”
Source: Doctor Glas
“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God”
“I've always been super aware that we could all die at any moment. This ceiling could fall. I could trip and land on this pen I'm holding. I could choke on my cold pasta lunch. I could be attacked by that pigeon eying me from my window sill. I could be shot...by a stranger...who lost something in their heart. Remember death is real. It's not scary. Living is the thing to care about. Don't hold grudges. Smile and make others smile as often as possible. Don't let jerks run the world.”
“I've always been surprised that everyone goes on living.”
Source: Demons
“I've always been the protagonist of my own story, but it's interesting to think I could be a villain in somebody else's. Somebody out there has tried to attain or achieve something, and I have stood in their way. To an extent, we're each an encapsulation of both protagonist and antagonist, hero and villain.”
Source: Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
“I've always been uncomfortable with compliments, though I have a pathological need for them.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.”
“Why would you ever think that?”
Source: Eidolon
“I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.”
“I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
Source: Mickey7
“I've always believed that a hoarder house is a house full of quitting. To make a change, the hoarder has to stop quitting and start trying. The hoarder has to want to change...
When hoarders quit, they are cheating their potential. Every time they quit, they are taking a shortcut and they know it. The guilt builds, which is why hoarders can't allow themselves to quit again, not even once. Quitting on small actions eventually leads to completely giving up.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“I’ve always believed that doing good, and being good, while thinking good about everyone, is to have patience and understanding. To love people, to behave like a human being should, has been a way of life for me. I have not known anything else.”
Source: Nazar: “Self-Fulling Prophecy Realized”
“I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.”
“I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.”
Source: For Two Thousand Years
“I’ve always believed that there’s a possibility for everything in the world to collide for a single perfect moment, and that sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get to have one for yourself. This one is ours.”
Source: My Mechanical Romance
“I've always believed that to some extent you get to decide for yourself what your life will be like. You can either look at the world and say "Oh, isn't it all so tragic, so grim, so awful." Or you can look at the world and decide that it's mostly funny.
If you step back far enough from the details, everything gets funny. You say war is tragic. I say, isn't it crazy the way people will fight over nothing? People fight wars to control crappy little patches of empty desert, for crying out loud. It's like fighting over an empty soda can. It's not so much tragic as it is ridiculous. Asinine! Stupid!
You say, isn't it terrible about global warming? And I say, no, it's funny. We're going to bring on global warming because we ran too many leaky air conditioners? We used too much spray deodorant, so now we'll be doomed to sweat forever? That's not sad. That's irony.”
“I've always believed that we start to die once we start believing the lies we tell ourselves.”
“I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes…”
“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it — over and over, again and again...”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“I’ve always craved that sensation of a traveler. To feel liberated with no boundaries.”
“I've always drawn cartoons, that's all I can do. If I didn't draw, I would probably be in a mental hospital.”
Source: R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb