"I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped."

-- Eva Hart

#Helping Quotes #Cynicism Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?”
“Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape”
“Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.”
“Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.”
“Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.”
“Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.”
“My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.”

Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.2, Copper Canyon Press
“I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act”

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