"Life is not a tour of gas stations."

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Tim O'Reilly

#Gas Stations Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Gas Quotes

“Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.”
“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press
“I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.”
“The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.89, Paulist Press
“Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.”
“According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.”
“People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?”

Source : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
“From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?”

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