"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

#Life Quotes #Sun Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

Source : Reuters, March 31, 1998.
“One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.”
“Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.”

Source : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.244
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.”
“I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them....”
“With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure”

Source : Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.221
“I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.”
“I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...”

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