"A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires."

-- Bill McKibben

#Style Quotes #Desire Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.”
“Feeling is to lose a major league game.”
“I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.”
“I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.”
“How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?”
“There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”

Source : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.290, Spiegel & Grau
“Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.”
“I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.”

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