"The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?"

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Jandy Nelson

#Witty Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.”
“Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.203, Open Road Media
“Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.”
“Pessimism is a waste of time.”
“The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests.”
“Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.”
“I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.”
“We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.”

Source : James Kavanaugh (1990). “Search: A Guide for Those Who Dare to Ask of Life Everything Good and Beautiful”, Steven J Nash Pub

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