"My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable"

-- Anne Lamott

#Heart Quotes #Broken Quotes #My Heart Quotes

“Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.”
“It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.”
“The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.”
“But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. Itâ€™s a mistake of emphasis.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“In life's most significant moments we are always alone.”
“He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.”

Source : Jack London (1904). “The Call of the Wild”
“Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.”

Source : Gordon Stein (1980). “An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism”

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