"You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched."

-- Audre Lorde

#Dream Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes

“To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.308, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.”
“Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world...”

Source : Nnedi Okorafor (2008). “Zahrah the Windseeker”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.”
“Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.”
“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”

Source : "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.
“We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.”

Source : Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.38, Vintage

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