"Staring down hard truth takes guts."

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Source : Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.33, Penguin

Joan Bauer

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“Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.”
“It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.”

Source : "The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus".
“Religion isnâ€™t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. Itâ€™s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.”
“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”
“Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.”
“Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.”
“Looks like he's dressed for court.”
“The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.”

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