"It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one."

-- Jim Gerlach

#Country Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world”
“But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.”
“Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.”

Source : "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.
“But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.”
“The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.”
“To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.”
“Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to ***** over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.”

Source : Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.181, Duke University Press
“There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.”

Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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