"The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort."

-- Robert D. Putnam

#Sunshine Quotes #Community Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.”
“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.”
“Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.”

Source : "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.
“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.”
“I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.”
“He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.”
“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books
“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...”

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