"When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved."

-- Anne Lamott

#Mind Quotes #Bigger Quotes #Agree Quotes

“Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
“There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.”

Source : Edna Ferber (2015). “Cheerful—By Request”, p.106, Booklassic
“Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.”
“Topology and number theory are my faves.”

Source : Barnard Physics Mechanics PHYS BC2001, 2010.
“Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .”
“Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.”

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