"The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier."

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Source : "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

Laini Taylor

#Appreciate Quotes #Brain Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
“Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.1, Atlantic Monthly Press
“For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.”

Source : "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 11, 1880.
“For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.”
“Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.”

Source : John L'Heureux (1992). “The shrine at Altamira”, Viking Pr
“The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
“A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.”

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