"We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences."

-- Samuel Scheffler

“It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.”
“If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.”
“My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.”
“There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things...”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”
“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.40, Penguin
“I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.”
“Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.”
“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”

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