"People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent."

-- Hugo Hamilton

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #People Quotes

“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”
“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”
“A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami
“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
“It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.”
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.”

Source : Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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