"The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community."

-- Dorothy Day

#Loneliness Quotes #Community Quotes #Answers Quotes

“If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Uma Defesa da Poesia e Outros Ensaios (Edição Bilíngue): Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.199, Editora Landmark LTDA
“The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf
“What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.”
“We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.”
“AÂ lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight â€” and when they come out, theyâ€™re gay.”
“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!”
“If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.”

Source : "Patti Stanger: "What I've Learned About Love"". The Shape Interview, www.shape.com.
“We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.”

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