"In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Men Quotes #Order Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.”

Source : Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”
“Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”

Source : "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.
“Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
“What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.”

Source : "Audacity and irony" by Angelia Wilson, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.
“I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.”
“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”
“Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?”
“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”

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