"So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."

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Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

Stephen Chbosky

#Inspiring Quotes #Hard Times Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage
“But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.”
“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.”

Source : Naomi Wolf, Leonard Wolf (2006). “The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See”, Simon and Schuster
“You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.”
“In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.”

Source : "My mysterious, inspiring J. J. Abrams Mystery Box" by John Baichtal, www.wired.com. July 14, 2009.
“Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.”
“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”
“I believe in myself and in Saint Therese.”

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