Linh Nguyen > Linh's Quotes

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
― Voltaire

“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
― Simon De Beavoir

“There does not exist any religious system, or supernatural extravagance, which is not founded on an ignorance of the laws of nature.”
― Marquis de Condorcet, Outlines Of An Historical View Of The Progress Of The Human Mind

“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
― Gary L. Francione

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

“Whatever people do, feel, think, or say, don’t take it personally. If they tell you how wonderful you are, they are not saying that because of you. You know you are wonderful. It is not necessary to believe other people who tell you that you are wonderful. Don’t take anything personally.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series