"Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under."

-- Karen White

#Memories Quotes #Heart Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.”
“Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.533, Duke University Press
“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”

Source : 1965 La Chamade, ch.9.
“You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.”
“I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.”
“The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?”
“A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing”
“The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.”

Source : Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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