"it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch."

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Source : Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

Mary Webb

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Way Quotes

“Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.”
“Men need to be strong, but not bullies. They need to know how to not get emotionally lost in situations, but not be cold and emotionless. They need to know the full variety of emotions as well as thinking and acting. Not just the most limited ways of doing things.”
“A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand. A final understanding could probably only begin upon permanent separation, or death. This is why we come back to certain poems, as we do to places or people, to experience and re-experience, to see ourselves for who we truly are, and to continue to be changed.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.”
“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”
“I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.”
“Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.”

Source : Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books

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