"It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the heart. They were Scottish upper class. I don't think they had political theories in the way my lefty friends in New York do but they did all the things that socialists do. My mother was the Jewish cook from Vienna and they would say, "Come and have dinner with us." I spent weekends with them. Who does that? This is Utopia."

-- Lore Segal

#Mother Quotes #Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.”
“I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.”
“I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.”

Source : Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale
“It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.”

Source : "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.
“...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure beri~beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later that the cure for beri~beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease.”
“Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer.”
“I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.”
“Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.”

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