"I was trying to disturb the war."

-- Joan Baez

#War Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.”
“How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?”
“She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.”
“Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding to phobias. I am often most surprised by the writing that comes from facing fears that strike closest to home, poems that explore internalized phobias about gender identity, sexuality, and the body, poems that struggle with a question like do I deserve love?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Itâ€™s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is Godâ€™s will. Itâ€™s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when youâ€™re not supposed to have emptiness.”
“Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.”

Source : William F. Schulz (1992). “Finding time & other delicacies”
“The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.”

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