"We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful."

-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Healing Quotes #Forget Quotes #Painful Quotes

“There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it”

Source : Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail
“The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.”

Source : Josef Pieper (2015). “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”, p.22, Ignatius Press
“I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.”
“Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.”
“The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”
“We are here for the sake of others”
“When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.”

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