"Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us."

-- Tove Jansson

#Grandmother Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“Heaven? That has no hold over me.”
“It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.”

Source : John E. Sarno (2001). “Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection”, p.52, Hachette UK
“On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal... but forget so many important parts of me?”
“The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.”
“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”
“When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.”
“I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.”
“All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.”

Source : "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1962.

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