"We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future."

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Holland Cotter

#Beautiful Quotes #Past Quotes #Promise Quotes

“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
“Things never are as bad as they seem.”
“The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.”
“There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.”
“I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.”
“I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.”
“If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked.”
“When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.”

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