"One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you."

-- Philip Pullman

#Growing Up Quotes #Moving Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”
“One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.”
“Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.”

Source : 'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55
“In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.”
“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
“The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.”
“I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.”
“I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net

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