"In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others."

-- Brennan Manning

#Healing Quotes #Past Quotes #Light Quotes

“My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.”
“How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?”

Source : Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.111, Penguin
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I donâ€™t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.”
“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”
“The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”
“That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.”

Source : George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.24
“I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.”
“The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.”

Source : Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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