"We notice a bee struggling inside a flower, or the smile of a woman as she passes us on the street, and for that tiny fraction of a second we understand what it means to be alive in the world, and then the moment passes, and we start worrying about our bills again."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Hannah Tinti

#Struggle Quotes #Flower Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.”
“Sometimes I think heâ€™s the kind of friend that grownups call a â€˜fair-weather friend.â€™ That means when everythingâ€™s going smoothly, heâ€™s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrongâ€¦(he) sort of turns on you.”
“Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.”
“An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.”

Source : Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”
“I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.”
“If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.”
“I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist.”
“Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”

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