"I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves."

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Alice Walker

#Unbearable Quotes

“The gene as the basis of life.”

Source : Hermann Joseph Muller (1956). “Man's Place in Living Nature”
“The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.”
“There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.”
“Once you get a brother, you donâ€™t give him up easy.”
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”
“After doing a total of five years of Daily Grace, you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.”

Source : "Getting personal with YouTube star Grace Helbig". Interview with Carly Lanning, www.dailydot.com. February 14, 2014.
“So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.”

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