"I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English."

-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Father Quotes #Grateful Quotes #School Quotes

“The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not limited by words -- nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified.”
“I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”

Source : Reginald Shepherd (1996). “Angel, Interrupted”
“Landon Loucas Maxfield was asleep on his sofa. With me.”
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
“Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.”
“Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.”
“There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.”
“The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.”

Source : John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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