"How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?"

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Source : Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

Leigh Newman

#Mean Quotes #Longing Quotes #Wisps Quotes

“In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.”
“If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.”
“Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.”
“Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.”
“The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.”
“It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!”
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”

Source : William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4
“No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do”

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