"It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well."

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Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.187, iUniverse

Jo Coudert

#Human Nature Quotes #Quirks Quotes #Treats Quotes

“When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.”
“I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here.”
“Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.”
“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”
“A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.”
“For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

Source : 1939 FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.
“We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.”
“If you do it right, it will last forever.”

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